Finance committee  The thing you said about parity of esteem—I have four university degrees and three journeyman's tickets. The journeyman's tickets mean I can do something. The others are nice to have.

Finance committee  Thank you very much.

Finance committee  Given the crass nature of humanity, things like the apprenticeship incentive grant, brought in by the prior government, the apprenticeship completion grant, those sorts of things go a long way to making people understand that apprenticeship is actually a valuable commodity. The

Finance committee  The Government of Canada is a significant employer. It employs a few tradespeople. It employs no apprentices except in the dockyards where the navy has decided they're going to try to grow their workforce, and we happen to be the union. There are huge opportunities to promote th

Finance committee  Thank you very much. Chris Smillie from my office is here to make sure that I don't undo any of his good work. I'm getting graded for this. I'd like to thank the committee. The last time we appeared, you made a recommendation to support worker mobility from place to place. I wo

Human Resources committee  You know what? We actually have a lot of people who are counting on you to do something here. So fail not.

Human Resources committee  I would say that the most important thing with unemployment insurance, at least as it is presently structured, is that if you have a job, keep it—unless you think you will actually to get something else that's an absolute guarantee. Anyone who rolls the dice is in trouble, in my

Human Resources committee  I follow very slowly in French.

Human Resources committee  I think the short answer to that is no. We try to give them all the information we can, but people make their decisions based on some or poor information. I would say that the average person who is in the EI system doesn't really know what the system is about. They learn by exp

Human Resources committee  Reasonably literate people can try to manage through a system. The system has to be available to them in order to work. If you can't get through by email, by voicemail, by the telephone, or by letter, then the system doesn't work.

Human Resources committee  Reinstate something like the board of referees. Look at the various zones across the country. I think they have to be rethought. Look at principles such as, if someone has left a job, is there a reasonable cause for doing that? Not infrequently, we have people who have been livin

Human Resources committee  Go to New Brunswick and you'll see a province where there is a dividing line. South of the line it takes more than 610 hours to get 17 weeks worth of benefit, but if you're 100 yards north of the line, it's 300 hours for 52 weeks benefit. That doesn't seem right to me. Maybe it d

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. As a result of the short notice, I haven't been able to get you any written material, but I undertake to do so in a timely fashion. Thank you for having a look at this topic. I think the entire EI system needs to be looked at, but this is a great place to

Natural Resources committee  The sooner we get on with it, the better off we are.

Natural Resources committee  I would say one thing differently. A pipeline company has assets, whether it's the pipe in the ground or whatever else, or the contracts of cartage or whatever they're called. Those should be exigible.