Human Resources committee  I don't know if it's only due to that. It's probably partly due to that. I don't know to what extent; it's only new.

Human Resources committee  I can try to.

Human Resources committee  I can start. Yes, I think we are concerned as to what the impact will be of the aging population on the labour market. We are already doing a number of things and we have to continue doing them. For example, we need to ensure that all Canadians can fully participate in the labour market.

Human Resources committee  In Nunavut, no. I think in there it says it's the way Service Canada provides services to a remote area. They have officers who travel and go to those areas to present what the programs are and what this will do for the communities.

Human Resources committee  Yes, all provinces now are completely responsible for providing training to LMDAs and LMAs.

Human Resources committee  What we're saying is that they are doing it now. I don't know when it started. I cannot speak of when exactly they began to travel in more remote areas, but that was one example that was working, in fact, in Nunavut.

Human Resources committee  I will not be able to provide that information.

Human Resources committee  When we look at the kind of programming we have in skills development, in fact we do recognize that partnerships are really key in all our programming. As I did mention, a lot of the programming is in terms of developing the training per se, and that's why the need is delegated at the provincial level, and in the case of aboriginal communities to the aboriginal group itself, to ASETS holders.

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure we have a program that does that specifically, but I think the skilled partnership fund, when we bring people to be trained and work on specific projects, is one way we can increase their skill level and give them the opportunity to find employment. That knowledge and that information could be brought back to their own communities to show there's sometimes some hope to have some work.

Human Resources committee  No, I don't have those figures, specifically how many are successful after getting the intervention with the.... That was referring to all provinces and territories using labour market development agreement money to fund different supports for the 600,000 who are being trained or use the support.

Human Resources committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and distinguished members of this committee. My name is Louis Beauséjour and I am the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of the Skills and Employment Branch of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. I am joined today by my colleagues, John Atherton and James Sutherland, as well as Janet DiFrancesco, Adam Scott and Shane Williamson from Industry Canada, and Allan Clarke and Sheilagh Murphy from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development.

Human Resources committee  In 2009 one of the big achievements we had in terms of mobility, both internally and in ensuring that people coming from other countries or who had been trained in another country could have more access to the labour market, was the pan-Canadian framework for foreign credential recognition, which was key to that achievement.

Human Resources committee  Yes, it was both the creation of the new Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board in 2008 and its ability to set the rate on a going forward basis. Moreover, there was an instruction to this new organization to look at the balance starting in January 2009, going forward.

Human Resources committee  Yes, at the time the maximum increase was set at 15¢ per year. The government, as I remember last fall, as part of the budget, decided to have the maximum increased up to 5¢ for the coming year.

Human Resources committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me. I didn't bring that. It's higher than the current rate. The EI operating account, as you know, was in a deficit because of the economic downturn; but I don't remember the level that was indicated. It was part of the Chief Actuary's report that was published last fall.