First-of-its-Kind Ontario High School Program Gets Top Marks for Boosting “Made in Canada” Manufacturing

Thursday, Oct 02, 2025

Article content originally published in Electrical Line Magazine on September 22, 2025.

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With a reported 70% of Ontario manufacturers struggling to find skilled workers, the Canadian Tooling & Machining Association (CTMA) has found an unconventional solution to address the challenge: high school teachers.

Through a unique program, called Career-Ready with CTMA: Expanding Opportunities, the organization is providing hands-on training in precision metalworking to hundreds of educators at 157 high schools across Ontario and furnishing their classrooms with high tech, shop-standard CNC milling machinery and tooling. The teachers in turn are confidently training their students – 25,000 of them to date – to program and use the equipment, setting them up for profitable and rewarding careers in manufacturing right out of high school.

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