b'TRAVAILthe kids interested in trades wanted to go into plumbing orans, nous avions lanc des programmes dans les coles secon-electrical. In my experience, roofing has often suffered fromdaires, mais les jeunes penchaient plutt pour la plomberie ou that kind of an image problem. Im a contractor with a focusllectricit. La toiture a toujours eu un problme de percep-on flat roofs and building envelopes, but people still ask if I dotion. Bien que spcialis dans les toits plats et lenveloppe des residential shingle replacements and work with hot tar.btiments, on minterroge souvent sur les rparations de toits He adds that todays labour issues are very real, and noten bardeaux ou lutilisation de goudron chaud.just for the roofing industry. Young Canadians are just notM. Pochynuk souligne que les enjeux actuels de recrute-interested in applying for roofing jobs, which are relativelyment sont palpables, et pas uniquement dans le secteur de lucrative in terms of other apprenticeships. Ive even noticedla toiture.Les jeunes Canadiens sont peu enclinsdevenir one of the local Tim Hortons here had to reduce their businesscouvreurs, malgr des salaires attractifs par rapportdautres hours,heexplains.Soyes,itseverywhere,butitsalsomtiers comparables au Canada, indique-t-il. Un Tim Hortons cultural. There are many reasons [why] the roofing industry islocalammedadapterseshorairescausedecette suffering from a labour shortage. We have an aging workforce,contrainte.Cestunphnomnegnralisdunocan for one, and younger people in Canada are not looking tolautre, mais aussi un phnomne culturel. Plusieurs facteurs roofing as a career choice. expliquent les difficults de recrutement. Nous faisons faceAnd, like everywhere, the global pandemic only exacerbatedun vieillissement de la main-duvre, et les nouvelles gnra-the problem. In construction, we were lucky enough to betions ne voient pas la toiture comme une carrire privilgie. working through the pandemic because roofing was deemedLa pandmie a accentu cette crise, selon M. Pochynuk : essential, and for good reason, Pochynuk explains. Some of Dans le btiment, nous avons continu, car les toitures taient the potential work slowed down because of the pandemic, butconsidres comme vitales. Si certains projets ont t mis en we had a lot in place which kept us going. But still, we can onlypausecause de la crise sanitaire, nous avions des dispositifs do so much with the amount of people we have. qui nous permettaient de poursuivre. Mais avec notre effectif Pochynuk identifies some of the repercussions of the labouractuel, nos capacits sont limites. shortage: These labour issues have the potential to becomeLindsay Pochynuk pointe du doigt les consquences de veryseriousifnotresolved.Theycanthreatentheroofingcette pnurie :Sans intervention, la situation pourrait sag-companies themselves. Ultimately, it affects how much workgraver et mettre en pril les entreprises de couverture. Cela the business can take on. That also means the cost of roofinglimite le volume de commandes quune entreprise peut traiter. Roofing Siding EavestroughYOUR ONE-STOP SHOP FOR QUALITY EXTERIOR BUILDING PRODUCTS!5 locations in Ontario to serve you and delivery available across CanadaBuchnerRoofing.com | BuchnerMfg.com | 800-461-6455AUTOMNE/HIVER 2023 COUVERTURES CANADA 19'