Human Resources committee  Absolutely. I'll just say that in terms of best practices, I've heard of many. There are programs in Nova Scotia. There's a women building futures program that is located in Edmonton. The YWCA also has some programs. I think the best practices we see are introducing women to th

Human Resources committee  I would be in agreement with Jennifer on that. My thinking is that there has to be a better-managed school-to-work transition period. Certainly teachers can't be expected to understand a career path that they didn't take. So awareness is big with guidance counsellors and teacher

Human Resources committee  Okay. The agreement on internal trade has made mobility much easier once anybody is certified. Red Seal has always been recognized and has been advertised as something related to the labour mobility of a certified journey person. I think that's been helpful in the Red Seal trad

Human Resources committee  That was the tax credit.

Human Resources committee  We have. The trades and apprenticeship program has a close relationship with the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum. They present to each of our board meetings, and have certainly spoken to us, not in terms of cuts, but in terms of take-up and how to improve that. I know many of our b

Human Resources committee  I think it's been very effective in terms of raising the profile of the importance of apprenticeships, because anything that enables us to start to talk to employers and talk to apprentices about the perceived value I think is beneficial. Uptake has been a challenge. I think th

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. Thank you very much, and thank you for inviting us here today to talk about fixing the skills gap. I wanted to start by defining apprenticeship, because this is a term that is commonly used, and we find that apprenticeships and the apprenticeship system are not wel