Absolutely, the workplace today not only requires literacy but also numeracy, computer skills, and the new technology. While they are capable of learning, they don't come to the door with those skills in play.
For older workers, there is a need for transitional funding, to make sure they have extended time in employment insurance and have the time they need for additional training. Previous changes in the budget did provide a little bit of additional time so that older workers did not have to wait those extra two weeks if they went right away into a training program and so on. Those kinds of initiatives need to be magnified, to recognize the need, first, for upgrading and the time it takes to do that, and also for the amount of time it takes to get a new job.