In my business, I'm finding that the availability of skilled engineering, engineers, and technologists is actually quite good right now. It helps that I live in a very attractive location in the South Okanagan, so it's not too hard to attract folks.
There is definitely more of a challenge in the remote areas and the areas further north, which is where a lot of the resources reside. We were speaking earlier about power generation in remote communities. One of the challenges in order to do this sort of thing is to have local people trained to operate and maintain these facilities. Training programs that do outreach and encourage learning and STEM, especially for remote communities and/or first nations communities definitely would be advantageous, so that when these technologies get applied to remote areas it's easier for them to find the skilled labour, technologists, and service people locally instead of having to import them.