The Nova Scotia government announced earlier today a new set of actions to recruit, retain and train more people in the skilled trades.

This $100 million investment over the next three years will accelerate growth in the skilled trades and modernize the entire apprenticeship and trades qualification system to meet the needs of a growing province.

The actions announced will add up to 5,000 more new apprentices to the system in the next three years, increase the number of journeypersons and trades qualifiers by 1,000 a year, and increase the retention rate of apprentices from 43% to 60% within five years.

Effective immediately, the Province is also changing the ratios from one journeyperson per two apprentices to one journeyperson per three apprentices in most trades, and it is excluding final level apprentices from ratios in all trades.

Find out more here.

Read the Government of Nova Scotia's news release here.