Degrees of separation: Canada's CEOs call for cuts to university enrolment

The shaky economy seems to have prompted Canada's CEOs to pontificate on what steps should be -- nay, must be -- taken to solve our economic woes as a nation. Case in point: on Monday, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) released a paper titled "Career ready: Towards a national strategy for the mobilization of Canadian potential."

Canada's workforce challenges, it explains, are profound. But the reason we have not met them is simple: too much education for too many young people in too many areas that do not have a direct application to the needs of the job market.