Very good.
Thank you.
Jean.
Evidence of meeting #27 for Finance in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was jobs.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Evidence of meeting #27 for Finance in the 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was jobs.
A recording is available from Parliament.
6 p.m.
Corporate Secretary, Confédération des syndicats nationaux
I will underline the three crucial elements of a federal strategy designed to improve youth employment. First, there are the working conditions for young people in the workforce. Then, jobs have to be created, meaning that the conditions have to be re-created where all parties, employers, unions and provincial, territorial and federal governments alike, would come together and work as partners in job creation. Finally, we have to find ways to integrate young people into the workforce.
if, in the next 10 years, the federal government, the provinces, the territories, the unions and the employers succeed in working on these three topics in partnership, I think we will have the recipe for success. They have tested it in Germany. We once had it in Canada, but, in the last several years, we no longer do. That is the challenge we have to meet.
6 p.m.
Director, National Affairs, Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Thank you.
I want to highlight from our presentation that small businesses do train youth. They are very involved in youth hiring and they do an incredible amount of on-the-job formal training that needs to be recognized by government.
They can be assisted in that by considering things like the EI training credit or the EI hiring credit focusing on youth, keeping payroll taxes stable, and looking at solving this issue of apprenticeship and all the different associated issues that go with having 10 different provincial bodies across the country dealing with that.
6 p.m.
Conservative
6 p.m.
Director, Skills Policy, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
When we look at the skills gap you could in fact divide it into an information gap and an experience gap when it comes to young people. On the information side it's getting that labour market information, bearing down, and making sure they're making some choices vis-à-vis the actual opportunities that may transpire in the labour market and in the employment market.
On the experience side we know from Germany and we also know in Canada that the opportunity to have some work-integrated experience, co-op placements and so forth is really valuable to the employability of that graduate. We're seeing that really increase at the university level. It's been part and parcel of colleges and polytechnics, but it is a very valuable piece of getting young people prepared for their workforce entry.
On harmonization, we've heard about the value of that consortia and the opportunities this would provide for training, especially by small business.
I think those are all good ideas.
Thank you.
6 p.m.
Conservative
The Acting Chair Conservative Dave Van Kesteren
They're all very good. Thank you very much.
This has been an excellent panel. I want to thank you for indulging us. Forgive us for making you wait, but I think we've had a great meeting.
That's a wrap.
Thank you all.
The meeting is adjourned.