International Trade committee  I agree with what Pierre is saying about the opportunity to get in early in the negotiations to help set some of the framework for the negotiation. I think one of the challenges Canada finds itself in with the TPP is that we're getting into the agreement fairly late, and a lot

International Trade committee  Just to add to that, a lot of what we're talking about in terms of labour mobility is within supply chain labour mobility, intra-company transfers or intra-related parties mobility, and so involves tier one suppliers and engineers. We're not talking about agricultural workers or

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Good morning, members. Thank you for having me here today. I'm pleased to be here on behalf of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters and our 10,000 members to discuss Canada's labour market development agreements. By way of background, more tha

Human Resources committee  By allowing companies to invest the money they contribute to the EI system into training new and existing hires, the program will leverage greater employee contributions, resonate better with the employers, and create better economic outcomes for Canada. Thank you for inviting m

Human Resources committee  I'll have to apologize. I think there were some gaps in the translation. I'll try my best. I think he was having a hard time keeping up with you, but I'll try my best.

Human Resources committee  I think I appeared before this committee a year and a half ago when those reforms were first announced. We supported the reforms in general. I know there are some specific elements of it that have caused people some problems. Some of our members have concerns over some of the ref

Human Resources committee  Shall I go with this one?

Human Resources committee  Since you didn't even hear the question, and I'm not even sure I remember it anymore.... I think it was how you ensure it's aligned better in terms of the training programs.

Human Resources committee  I think you have to start with better data. That's fundamental in all this, as it were. Data is the underlining value here. Whether it's data on the labour market information or what the training dollars are going to be spent on, the good data just isn't available, so I think tha

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

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

Human Resources committee  I don't sing very well either, just so you know.

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

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

Human Resources committee  Thanks.