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Human Resources committee  By the way, it's good to see you again. Yes, there are some things you can do and I think some of the steps are there. Maybe it's just not being done in a nationally consistent format. Some of the stuff that Catherine was talking about in terms of their involvement in local comm

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I am involved and I have a colleague with me who spends probably 50% of his time on it. We've actually just started and it's a kick-off. It was to be a private sector-led initiative around figuring out exactly what some of the problems are. It operates as an online forum for co

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I'll be short for a change. I agree. I don't have much to add.

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I'll go back to some of the comments I made in my testimony. The frustration, I think, is that employers expect the stuff to be taught in high school, before employees get there. I don't think the LMDAs should be trying to teach people some of these basic skills. We pay $50 billi

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  We do it in our regional offices across the country, in a few of them anyway. In Manitoba, as an example, we run a program that is a province-wide hovercraft-building competition that engages high schools students, so students in grades 11 and 12. They partner with the aerospace

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I think that's the problem, though. There aren't those technical skills being taught anymore at the primary levels, so students aren't coming into the streams as much as they used to. It's a huge problem for all industries.

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  That's a great question. That's been an ongoing project and joint venture we've had with CLC now for going on six or seven years. I think we've learned quite a bit out of it. In the partnership right now, we're actually trying to develop national occupational standards, both for

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  Maybe there's a bit of a misunderstanding or maybe the knowledge is not there about how much workers are involved, but obviously, major union groups like Unifor and others are major trainers in this country. They have their own training centres set up right across the country, an

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I guess I would answer similarly. I think a lot of cooperation goes on today, and I'm not sure how much you could improve it. We do not hear complaints about areas of training that need to be improved. A lot of it does go on today. I'm not sure how much more we can improve it.

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I'll pick up directly on that. When I mentioned in my remarks what a company told me, that they have an 80% rejection rate of new hires, that's exactly what it is. They're basically unsafe to be working in the work environment. That is primarily language and numeracy skills. It's

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I'm sorry, but I think there was something cut out. Which joint effort?

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  Yes, I think that in any business, you need to be able to measure your results. If you're not measuring the specific results.... They don't always have to be economic. Obviously you want to look at social and other results, but there is barely any data on a result. I'm not sure

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I personally have not read every province's report. I'm lucky enough in our organization to have offices across the country who do this. They commented back to me that they are just as mystified as to where the money is going as we would be here in Ottawa. These are offices of ou

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson

Human Resources committee  I'll try to be brief. I think, just in general, what worked was that it matched people who were unemployed and on the EI system with jobs that were needed in the workforce, that were available with employers who actually needed people to come in. Training was provided on the jo

May 27th, 2014Committee meeting

Mathew Wilson