The Atlantic Trades Business Seal is a certification program that will teach people in the trades how to open up their own business or move up in an already existing business.
It's being offered in five colleges across the east coast including the New Brunswick Community College. In order to achieve the business seal, program participants are required to complete 150 hours of study in five different areas.
Training and Labour Minister Danny Soucy says that this program provides the link between the skills required for the respective trade, and the skills it takes to run a business, which he says, are two very different things.
The Conference Board of Canada saying that nearly one million positions in trades will open up nationwide due to retirements by 2020.
For more information on the program, click here.