China's First Undersecretary of Foreign Development, Wang Flung Dung has announced that China will build vocational schools in Canada to train Canadians how to mine coal and weld pipes together. The program is to be modeled on one being delivered in Africa, where China also has difficulty finding trained workers for its many development projects.
"We find that in many of the backward areas of the world there is a lack of educational infrastructure," said Mr. Dung, "and rather than wait a generation or two for those countries to catch up we find it preferable to build that infrastructure ourselves."
"It's a win-win" continued Dung, "we get to mine our coal and refine our tar sands and Canada and Africa get some skilled workers!"
The matter of worker-training recently caused some controversy in Canada. While the country generally considers itself a member of the "developed" world, it was recently discovered that none of the millions of unemployed had even the rudimentary fundamentals of literacy and numeracy required to be trained as coal miners and welders, thereby forcing Chinese companies to bring their own workers into the country.
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