Some industry insiders and economists have been raising the alarm about a shortage of skilled workers in Canada.

One case in point: A recent study predicted Canada would create 218,000 high-tech jobs between now and 2020, but would graduate only a fraction of the students needed to fill them.

But then you hear stories about Canadian engineering graduates needing a year to find a job, and you wonder, is a high-skilled labour shortage really the problem Canada is facing?

According to Statistics Canada’s latest survey of job vacancies, virtually all of the most in-demand jobs in Canada are low-paid positions.

Of the 353,000 job vacancies in Canada in the fourth quarter of 2015, more than 50,000 of them were for retail salespeople and food counter workers alone. One notable exception to the low-wage trend: Jobs related to nursing.