A new partnership between Atlantic Canadian governments, industry and post-secondary institutions is aiming to address tight labour supply in the biotech sector.
The federally backed Future Skills Centre has announced that it will invest $1.5 million to found the Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences. Its mandate is to use training programs to soften a tight labour market in the bioscience sector.
Rory Francis, executive director of the PEI BioAlliance industry association, said in an interview that the initiative was originally conceived as a Prince Edward Island