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Natural Resources committee We would love to see an energy policy whereby you could force the big oil companies to build a refinery around.... Say, if they had three mines, they would have to have one refinery; if they have two mines, they would have to have an upgrader. I don't know; that's your bailiwick,
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee Miles ahead of them.
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee No, none of our guys, or none that I know of, are heading to the United States. We're importing Americans. Regarding trades training, the Canadian system is miles ahead of the American's. I shouldn't say that because those people pay me, but that's the way it is. That's the tru
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee Yes, if you had five welders.
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee We're accelerating our welder program because we know that we're low on welders. We've neglected it for far too long. It still takes three years to produce a top-quality alloy welder. In the time that it takes us to get those people up, we're going to have to use some temporary f
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee I don't think we can train enough to look after what's in front of us now. I also think there is some work to be done within the industry. I think that if we could get the oil companies to stagger shutdowns and expansions, we could utilize the workforce. Unfortunately, everything
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee There's no doubt that there is a tremendous workforce in the aboriginal communities. It's not being utilized.
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee I think you had two questions there. First of all, the training grants that are out there are very important to us. You know, 15 or 20 years ago every apprentice who came to us was 18 years of age, right out of high school. We're having 27-, 28-, 30-year old apprentices now with
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee Zero in on the specific trades—don't use the shotgun effect. They've got to zero in on where the shortages are. I would say that the most TFWs right now for such a small workforce are in heavy equipment operation. We need heavy equipment operators in this country, and you can tur
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee You can phase out the temporary foreign workers.
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee If you looked at jobs in Alberta right now, they're desperately in need of welders. We don't have any more in Canada; we're tapped. If we got five welders from the United States—and that's where we're going now—on a job site, two Canadian pipefitters are going to go to work for e
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee At the Edmonton West upgrade at Scotford, my particular trade had 4,000 people on the job. That job lasted for over three years. It was a 12,000-person job. That's an upgrader.
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee It was a three-year project.
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee The Irving Oil refinery every day has about 185 of my guys working. You can sort of figure the size of Irving Oil.
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford
Natural Resources committee Oh, they're forever.
May 21st, 2013Committee meeting
John Telford