According to a recent labor market study by Engineers Canada, the
country's rapid growth in the mining, energy, and
transportation sectors, coupled by the anticipated retirement of
approximately 95,000 Canadian engineers in the next 7 years, has
resulted in a worrisome shortage of experienced engineering talent.
Employers in the industrial and manufacturing sectors across the
country will face a considerable supply shortage of qualified
engineers (with more than five years of experience) for the
majority of the next decade.
According to Engineers Canada, the current imbalance between
supply and demand of experienced engineers will most likely become
more serious in the near future; the Canadian labour market has not
successfully reached a balance between retiring engineers and
incoming graduates from ether Canada or abroad. "Chronic
labour shortages will continue across the scenario given the
current levels of immigration and post secondary enrolments,"
the market
