Denis Cloutier spent his career in the automotive industry. Now, as the executive director of the Automotive Trades Association of Manitoba, he’s encouraging the next generation to do the same.
“Like every other trade, we are all struggling to attract youth to come into the trades so this is our opportunity to expose high school students to the collision repair industry,” Cloutier said. On Friday, the Automotive Trades Association of Manitoba held a high school career event as part of its annual trades show, with 365 students and teachers from across Manitoba getting the chance to learn about the many different jobs within the evolving industry.
“My school offers the collision repair and refinishing program and I have always loved just using my hands and problem solving and working away and I figured it would be a good opportunity for me,” said Samara Baltazar, who just graduated high school.For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.
“The amount of booths is really eye-opening and to know there’s a lot of opportunity here is really good,” Wiens said.“The vehicles are changing. A lot of people say they are computers on wheels now,” Cloutier said.House of Commons grinds to halt over allegations of Liberal ‘corruption’Airlines lose bid to skirt some of Canada’s air passenger rights rules“There’s lots of vendors out, lots of different vendors. There’s tooling, there’s materials, all sorts of things.