The APTF's exploration of the issue focused on three topics (and their related challenges): the workforce, economic development and education and training.

Given that the issue of skills needs in the context of an aging workforce is a broad and complex one, the APTF's exploration of the issues focused on three priority topics1 - and some of their related challenges - that are inherent to the issue:

  1. Workforce: challenges relating to youth, immigrants, the unemployed and underemployed, older workers.
  2. Economic development: challenges relating to job creation, productivity, and innovation.
  3. Education and training: challenges relating to stakeholder coordination, workplace training and lifelong learning, and trades and technologies.

This report synthesizes the key findings from the Prince Edward Island provincial dialogue, which was held in Charlottetown, on April 27, 2006.

Please note that all content provided in this report reflects what participants said during the dialogue. As such, the report does not represent the views of the Canadian Labour and Business Centre, the Atlantic Provinces Task Force or the Workplace Partners Panel and its staff. In addition, facts and figures presented by participants and included in the report have not been verified for accuracy.

As outlined above, this report is one of the inputs that the APTF Prince Edward Island representatives used to develop their thinking on approaches to address the over-arching challenge of skills needs in the context of an aging workforce. Elements of this report will also be included in the PEI chapter of the APTF's final report.

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1 These topics and challenges were identified by APTF members based on background research conducted by the WPP team, individual interviews with each of the APTF members and a prioritization of potential topics and challenges by the APTF as a whole. Return