Finance committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Nash, for the question. There are many answers. Across the country, a diverse set of ad hoc solutions is being done by community colleges.

Finance committee  When you have the K-to-12 system abandoning shop class, the first thing we need to do is to get young people to know how to hold a hammer or hold an auto part. That is called pre-apprenticeship. You have to remember that you can't become an apprentice unless you have an employer,

Finance committee  Good morning. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for permitting me to join you by video link from Toronto, and for the invitation to present our ideas for the next federal budget on behalf of Polytechnics Canada. I hope you've noted our August submission to your committee. While I

Finance committee  I can.

Human Resources committee  Well, that's just going back to my earlier point. There are industry professions here. That standardization must come from the employer community that is setting the standard that the electrician needs to be trained to. We are the delivery agent. When a college or a polytechnic r

Human Resources committee  I would suggest the positive place here is the common curricula on certain well-defined professions. That exists and that gets shared. For example, innovations in trades training—we heard about mobile training—can be shared better, but will take resources to do that. Each colle

Human Resources committee  Just to come back to Ms. Leitch, you mentioned your medical training experience and what has happened in that field. That was because the profession chose to build on portability. You can't look at the colleges and polytechnics and expect that we can dictate portability. These pr

Human Resources committee  Each of these 300 trades are governed by their own logic, their own structure, and their own employers. Those are the people who have to say that a welder is a welder is a welder. However, there is something called the Red Seal program, which is the first step. But that is for on

Human Resources committee  I just want to say that the issue of women in trades needs to be seen in a bigger context of women in the science, technology, engineering, and math professions. It is a very practical issue. There's a whole society-wide cultural shift that has to happen. You heard from Skills Ca

Human Resources committee  Good day everyone. Thank you very much for having invited us to appear today. It's very nice to be here again. We were here in March talking about the skills gap, and now we're talking about something even more focused than that. I'm going to ask Ken Doyle to take over for Poly

Industry committee  I'm going to ask Ken Doyle to help me on this one, but the quick comment is that they don't have to have the same policy as we do. That's exactly the problem. They are motivated very differently and they should be kept to doing what motivates them. Their professors are measured b

Industry committee  It's a pleasure to be here with my colleague, Ken Doyle, from Polytechnics Canada. There are so many things to say, so I will keep my opening statement brief and to three key points. We hope to bring a wider perspective on the innovation conundrum in Canada to your deliberation

Finance committee  We're trying to deal with the issue around poaching, which we haven't talked about either.

Finance committee  Where an employer, a company, has a tradesperson who's a third-level apprentice in that Red Seal trade and needs to go back to that block release training in education, but doesn't want to let that person go because business is tight, you have to keep working, and for the student

Finance committee  Oh, I absolutely agree with you. I think the issue that comes down—I talk about this issue all the time—is that there are very distinct motivations for the different actors in the education systems. We've actually tried to peanut-butter the problem and ascribe to every single act