Finance committee  Your question speaks to a very important point. We have framed the discussion in terms of there being a skills gap and of our having programs to address training and retraining opportunities. But one of the things we haven't specifically emphasized yet is that there is also a rea

Finance committee  I hear what you're saying. I think it's a good question. In talking about wage scarring, we're not talking about transitions to other fields of work; that is separate from what we're discussing. Wage scarring occurs when you experience unemployment fully or underemployment. Sa

Finance committee  We do have this new report that just came out today called “Underemployment is Canada's Real Labour Market Challenge”. Angella is one of the authors of the paper. Basically it breaks down to underemployment, that 27.7% number, is considered to be: those who are unemployed, so une

Finance committee  Absolutely. I think as part of what we would say towards gathering further debt is more debt, even if it is to get to a positive outcome, isn't the way we would like to see it going. We would like to see a grants-based program.

Finance committee  I'll go first. I don't know if wage scarring is an official term.... Oh, okay. I've been told: it's an official term. Basically what it means is that when young people experience a period of unemployment or underemployment, that puts them behind their peers who had steady emplo

Finance committee  I think that's a very loaded question in a lot of ways. I would say that promoting good jobs, the quality we find in manufacturing and resource extraction, would be a good way to employ more young Canadians and more young aboriginal people across the country. However, that also

Finance committee  I would put an emphasis on making sure that this is done through—

Finance committee  —unionized firms. We know that unionized firms provide more training for workers, both young workers and—

Finance committee  I think it merits exploration.

Finance committee  The issue of job mobility is a really critical one, because we also have to recognize that job mobility to a large extent is a privilege. If you have to leave or go very far from your community, go far away from your family, or if you have small children, that is a very big and a

Finance committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. As introduced, I'm Amy Huziak, and I'm the national representative of young workers for the Canadian Labour Congress. With me is my colleague, Angella MacEwen, who is a senior economist with the CLC. On behalf of the 3.3 million members of