From simple minds comes simple questions

“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.”
-G.K. Chesterton


With governments at various levels investing billions upon billions of dollars to create or preserve good paying jobs here in Canada I have one question. Why does it appear that none of them are making concerted efforts to retrain and recruit the newly unemployed to switch to the allegedly “recession proof” occupations that make up health care?

Granted several have announced stable or increased funding to health care which as a self designated special interest person I see as a good thing. Plus to their credit as near as I can see they haven't cut any existing retraining programs for the unemployed, but in these cases as I under stand it those programs aren't specifically directed to health care to start with.

I suppose some possible explanations could be my own general lack of awareness or perhaps my google-foo is just so weak that I can't find anything substantive.

But that said I do find myself wondering if this is an excellent opportunity missed, or worse another example of the powers that be ignoring a long standing problem in favor of a more recent and visible crisis.

Perhaps it's just me who thinks since the government is so determined to create new retraining programs it would make sense to have one specifically geared to retraining people for health care jobs, especially since the government has decided to spend the money regardless if we the people agree or disagree with the idea.