Human Resources committee  I think one of the biggest challenges that we face, and what I convey to our partners whether it's a trading institution or services, is that youth don't trust. Since 1990 the image that they are seeing and striving toward is not to trust Canada and not to trust anyone other th

Human Resources committee  Good morning. Thank you, chair and committee, for the opportunity to be a witness today. My apologies to my colleagues. Ralph Cleary could not be here and Dave Sergerie is experiencing some technical difficulties from Val-d'Or. I will present this on their behalf. This is my

Human Resources committee  Yes, there are more needs coming in, social needs for supports and things like that.

Human Resources committee  For example, even publicizing who we are is something we want to do, but at the same time, if we say, “If you want to find aboriginal workers, come see us”, our fear is that our people aren't ready. It's a long process and employers have to be willing to partner with us on that p

Human Resources committee  Yes, it is, and we're just starting to get into the essential skills and those kinds of programs to get them before they start looking at what kind of schooling they want. That's the reality. Even when it comes to a work ethic, if they're coming from a household where education a

Human Resources committee  I would say it's been pretty much the same. Maybe we have had five new employees.

Human Resources committee  I think the real bulk of the cost is that we're getting more and more people who need a longer duration of intervention, and in that time, if we had the ability to be more proactive instead of reactive, we could be going into the school system and teaching the young children in p

Human Resources committee  We have about 45 spread all over Quebec. There are some in the regional office in Kahnawake and consultants, and we have three to four in each urban service point.

Human Resources committee  It's the lack of O and M dollars. Administration for our organization comes from the allocation that comes to us from the province. We have language training for people. You could have an anglophone go through with that program and be the best linesman, but he's going to be chall

Human Resources committee  We lost those amounts because the cost of training has gone up, the demand for our services has gone up, the youth population is increasing.

Human Resources committee  I wish my finance guy were here, but in a nutshell, the money is distributed at the national level. It's based on different variables of remoteness, language, education levels, things like that, so it's disbursed to the different regions. Quebec gets a certain amount, and what we

Human Resources committee  It's the demand. Also with McIvor, we've seen new people coming. And with the introduction of the urban centres, there's been a new demand as well. That's what's happening.

Human Resources committee  We wanted to have our own adult education centres, because the vocational training centre was already in place and we could see that by having aboriginals together in cohorts, the success rate was higher. We also wanted to provide them with the cultural component and the student

Human Resources committee  We're finding in our employment integration committees, which we've been launching in the first year right now—we're focusing on the areas of Plan Nord, which is the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region as well as Côte-Nord, because there's a high demand there—that, as I said, getting th

Human Resources committee  I don't have the operational plan, but I think we're at about 2,000 just in the urban milieu alone. In the communities it would be probably double that.