Human Resources committee  On the EI question, one of my sons went to trade school and he was a welder. My daughter went to a number of universities and is now a quality control technician, so she's an apprentice too. They go to training, and they get their cheques. After training's done, they rely on the

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much.

Human Resources committee  The first is that in the voluntary certification trades, you don't have to actually complete to be one. You have to have the licence to be a plumber or an electrician, so people complete. Second, trades aren't sexy. Third, people can't find jobs and don't know where the jobs ar

Human Resources committee  In terms of apprenticeships and how we get people into them, 80% of the apprentices in Canada are produced by 17% of the employers. In my local of the plumbers and pipefitters in Edmonton, we have 11,000 members. We have 2,000 apprentices. When you take the retired guys out of th

Human Resources committee  I do. We might require that there will be certain number of people who actually graduate from the system. We could require that they graduate in a Red Seal trade. We could cooperate in creating more Red Seal trades. We need more of them, not fewer. In areas where there is some co

Human Resources committee  The feds manage it. The CCDA is in partnership with them.

Human Resources committee  The labour agreement from Nalcor has that in it.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  No, training funds are still in the bill. The truth is that Bill C-377 solves a problem that doesn't exist. Will we be affected in training? Yes.

Human Resources committee  It will reduce the amount of money available, because we only get so much out of a collective agreement.

Human Resources committee  I know we need temporary foreign workers. We have them in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Ontario. We need them. If they work under our collective agreements, they get exactly the same money that a Canadian gets. That's the deal,

Human Resources committee  I think the short answer to that is, yes, there is a government role. Companies like Shell and Syncrude aren't charities. They understand fully that if they are going to be able to develop the sorts of facilities they need, they need a follow-on workforce. They've done the demo

Human Resources committee  In terms of the shipbuilding program on either coast, make sure apprentices are there. I'll wrap up. I have only a couple of things to go. Concerning supports to the learner, you can't get a student loan if you're an apprentice, because your program is for eight weeks, not twel

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. In my time I'm going to try to go to the roots of things that we think really matter. I know you've heard from the brains of the apprenticeship system in the last couple of hearings. I'm going to try to represent what the brawn has to say about some of thes

Veterans Affairs committee  We've had employers lining up to say they're interested in finding people who have a work ethic and have self-discipline. Our employers have been very good at saying they'll make spots for people. Back home in Alberta, the Construction Labour Relations Association and the Boiler