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Person: Laura Jo Gunter
More integrated relationship between post-secondary institutions and industry can boost Canada’s lagging productivity

A more integrated relationship with stronger partnerships between post-secondary institutions and industry can provide students with more work-relevant training, while rapidly upskilling and reskilling the current workforce to boost Canada’s lagging productivity, Laura Jo Gunter, president and CEO at the Northern Institute of Technology, says in an op-ed.