Human Resources committee  The pilot project approach takes about one year. Then you move from one year to the next. You're always testing some new approach, rather than building on approaches that have shown promise. I haven't been funded by government for a long time, so I can't give you examples of pil

Human Resources committee  I'd like to add to that. In the model that we're using with Noront Mines, they are a willing and very interested partner and can play a very interesting role in terms of providing incentives for some of their suppliers. What Noront Mines is proposing to do is to make it a requir

Human Resources committee  What we have seen that works, particularly when we're looking at the foundational skills, is to integrate them with a very small investment—between 20 and 60 hours focused on the requirements of what is needed for the job now, rather than K-to-12 long-term math and literacy. We

Human Resources committee  I could only speak to the essential skills piece, but my colleague might be able to do that for the technical training. When we are trying out with pilot initiatives, sometimes we have that kind of flexibility, but then they're not scaled up for the long term. So we go from one