Human Resources committee  One of the best practices I see with the Lower Mattagami River project is the use of the contractor Kiewit-Alarie for soliciting any of our university or college graduates, due to the incentive grants for engineers. It's really excellent to provide that opportunity to any of our

Human Resources committee  Yes. They add an upgrading component to the level one for trades readiness. There is an intro, and then you get your level one, as well. But unlike a regular apprenticeship, pre-apprenticeships sunset. So the level one is only good for so long, and if you don't get registered you

Human Resources committee  Again, I guess it would be like the funding of K to 12, right? Every little boy, and hopefully every little girl now, too, wants to be a truck driver or wants to drive the heavy equipment, but they're not aware of all the different opportunities. For example, we have an electrica

Human Resources committee  Both streamlining and bringing in the system so that anybody could access within the same department, yes, that would be--

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  Being rural, we don't have one office to deal with, so oftentimes.... In this case, it's regarding unions and apprenticeship registration. Because we're dealing with union halls that are from a number of different areas, we also have to deal with the apprenticeship registration o

Human Resources committee  Oh, definitely. This, to me, is everyone's job in the community, and the government's as well, to encourage people right from the start to complete their grade 12. That will make their future training in life much easier. The best success for individual training plans is when peo

Human Resources committee  Yes, we've had two women carpenters. I don't have any women rodbusters. I have a few women in the quality assurance department. There is a smattering of women, but not large numbers. I would like to see more.

Human Resources committee  For women, the main issue is camp life and being away from their family and children. With our project, it's three weeks working at the camp and one week off. That's very difficult for our women, when many young women start having families often by the age of 18. That's a difficu

Human Resources committee  I think our day care service could always be improved. The project is actually at a remote site, so the day care wouldn't really be relevant. They're going to be away for 21 days in a row, so it would be hard to find a day care provider to leave their child with for 21 days. How

Human Resources committee  You're asking about barriers people face in trying to go back? There are a lot of social issues, such as overcrowded housing—it is difficult to get your homework done when you have ten people living in your house. One time I taught in Port Alberni in a building that used to be t

Human Resources committee  I see both. In our region we also have De Beers. When people found employment with the De Beers project, many left our community. It was just as easy to live in an urban centre and fly in as it was to commute from our community. We had some people who would take their whole famil

Human Resources committee  I had a comment, but it slipped my mind, so it must not have been that great.

Human Resources committee  Yes, definitely, there are problems with K-to-12, but it is again the gap for adults to return and the difference in programming in urban centres. Provincially, in Ontario it's funded through the school board, independent learning centres, and colleges--all three sectors. Yet in

Human Resources committee  Not on a consistent basis. The supports become available when the government has pockets of money that we're able to apply for and set up programs, but it's not available on a consistent basis, as it is in urban centres.