Human Resources committee  No, on our part there haven't been, but I'm going to put in a plug for the CCL to have a significant extending of their funding, because the research CCL does—this is something that basically, Dr. Cappon, you folks could coordinate—is very helpful to CTF; it's what I would call h

Human Resources committee  Calvin and I will do a bit of a Frick and Frack here. Certainly in my experience at the elementary level, I'd give credit to some of the banks and credit unions. They have some excellent programs with which you can supplement your math programs, some of those kinds of things. I

Human Resources committee  Calvin talked about some of the things in Alberta, but--Tony, you're my MP--I think it may not be that kids are moving all over. Let me tell you, when I was principal of Alex Muir Public School in Sault Ste. Marie--at standard rate, we would call it an inner-city school--the kids

Human Resources committee  From the Canadian Teachers' point of view, yes. Dr. Cappon talked about life-long learning. I think it's quite important. Calvin, you've done a fair amount of work on this. You may have a few comments.

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. I'll make some brief comments and then pass it over to our secretary general, Dr. Calvin Fraser. I want to thank you very much for the opportunity to have the Canadian Teachers' Federation make a presentation before you. Educators, whether they are at the e

Canadian Heritage committee  Grandparents are absolutely wonderful. I think we need to work with grandparents. One of the video operators that sells video games.... The largest market, of course, is made up of young males 16 to 25 in terms of some of the video games. However, one of the other huge markets i

Canadian Heritage committee  We would support what Shari is talking about in respect of the specificity of this bill.

Canadian Heritage committee  I can speak to that. I was president of the Elementary Teachers' Federation for five years. Under that, while we didn't lodge complaints, we would write to express our concern about certain advertisements on TV, and we will continue to do that. One of the comments you made was

Canadian Heritage committee  Thank you very much. The Canadian Teachers' Federation, CTF, is the national voice for teachers in Canada on education and related social issues. Our membership includes teacher organizations in every province and territory, representing 220,000 teachers across the country. We a