Human Resources committee  That was a budget 2015 decision.

Human Resources committee  The point here is to foster attachment to the labour force. The assumption is of course that a student may earn small amounts of income, but if we can encourage that attachment to the labour force while they're in study, then that is good for their long-term prospects in the lab

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, I'm going to ask Paul Thompson, who is the ADM working most closely with Citizenship and Immigration on the temporary foreign worker program, to respond. Paul, do you want to address that?

Human Resources committee  No, I think we're in the committee's hands, Chair. I may take the liberty, from time to time, as we get into the different areas, to invite other colleagues from the department to come forward and converse with officials. We actually have a number of new colleagues in the depart

Human Resources committee  About 6,900 is our estimate.

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, it occurs to me that I may have answered a little bit the wrong question. We estimate that there will be about 6,900 beneficiaries, which would be an increase of about 900 from the current take-up. I thought I should clarify that.

Human Resources committee  An amount of $12 million will be carried over from this year to next year.

Human Resources committee  That's right.

Human Resources committee  Simply put, we will do our best, keeping in mind the comments people made last year about the administration. The three pillars of the program are: Career Focus, geared toward employers, Skills Link, a program for young people facing a number of obstacles, and the Summer Work Ex

Human Resources committee  I would just say that the digital age has two main impacts. Louise may want to elaborate on this in more detailed questions if you wish. The first is to turn increasingly to automated processing of the claims rather than having it done manually by individuals. The second of cou

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Chair. You've articulated a number of challenges, as all members have and, frankly, given us a lot to think about as we go from here. On the first point, I don't think any program or network of programs can completely insulate the labour market from the ups and downs

Human Resources committee  The only thing I would add, Chair, is that the concern about those at risk of layoff was one of the flexibilities offered in the Canada job grant. Employers can use the Canada job grant for employees that could be at risk of layoff because of outmoded skills, or what have you. Th

Human Resources committee  Chair, I'm not in a position at the moment to give all of the detail on each of the recommendations. I could say a couple of things about that, which I hope will be helpful. We have not followed the Drummond report, in terms of each recommendation being acted upon as given. Our

Human Resources committee  We have a good sense...and we could provide information on the progress that has been made. It will not correspond recommendation by recommendation to the report, but we could—

Human Resources committee  We'd be happy to provide the committee with progress in the area of labour market information. I would stress that this is a work in progress. We are not satisfied, as public servants in the department, that we are currently providing the government, Parliament, the country, empl