Human Resources committee  Environmental employment is cross-sectoral and multidisciplinary. As a result, we employ individuals from a huge number of science, engineering, technology, humanities, and social sciences—from environmental lawyers and environmental physicians, all the way to environmental scien

Human Resources committee  If I can answer, I think some of the beneficiaries of this are not just industry. In the environment sector, we help governments develop good public policy through a variety of activities that we do. We help universities and colleges develop curriculum. We help provincial governm

Human Resources committee  It's exactly the same for us.

Human Resources committee  It is. We find that specifically in rural, remote areas there are issues. When we're talking about Canada's north and other areas, there is difficulty—

Human Resources committee  It is an issue, when you're talking about technical data and trying to get people involved in that area, especially if Canada wants to be a leader and offer these programs internationally in order to attract people to come to Canada based upon our educational system.

Human Resources committee  I can answer. Pick one.

Human Resources committee  I think one of the parts of that as well is that our organization looks at a very large difference between a labour shortage and a skills shortage. We don't believe that presently we have a labour shortage; we believe we have a skills shortage. As a result, employers will pay les

Human Resources committee  Our partners in this whole process are some of the larger universities in Canada, as well as several universities from the United States. It's only begun; we've only been in existence for three years. Our first master's student started last year, so we haven't graduated any of t

Human Resources committee  Absolutely, we will, because the graduates of the program receive university parchment, actually, from Royal Roads University, which is where our centre is physically located.

Human Resources committee  There are the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Calgary.

Human Resources committee  You would pay the exact same tuition the university would charge for that course online. There is no additional charge to go through this degree.

Human Resources committee  It was Royal Roads University.

Human Resources committee  It's in Victoria and Sidney, B.C.

Human Resources committee  When we're talking about measurement, for example, we're talking about renewable energy and energy efficiency—measuring pollutants that are being emitted, greenhouse gas measurements, carbon measurements, carbon loadings, carbon inventories. ECO Canada, through our certificatio

Human Resources committee  Yes, ECO Canada is Canada's national certifier for ISO 14000 environmental management systems auditor, so we are the only organization in Canada that accredits or certifies those particular auditors.