Finance committee  I've heard a few questions like this. Yours dovetails with this. There is the matching of skills and education to what's out there for employment. The other part, though, is where the government has greater challenges. Where do you make the interventions for the people who don't

Finance committee  Saskatchewan may have the luxury of a growing economy, so everything is in demand and they can continue to invest in every area. I think this is a fair challenge to identify for the rest of the country, where there are fluctuations. I would go back to what I think is the centra

Finance committee  First of all, there is a role for government to play, but it's not exclusively government's responsibility. I think in some ways the most effective matching of skills to labour-market needs comes in almost a P3 type of format. I'll give you the best example I can think of. I ha

Finance committee  Again, maybe just to clarify, most of our programs are of course for students who have not quite reached the point of apprenticeships, so they're on their pathway. I think the funding you're talking about would actually benefit them at the tail end of the work they're doing with

Finance committee  Absolutely. One thing I know—and certainly this would be a conversation more with provincial governments—is that every government, at every level, struggles to attract and retain students in skilled trades. I often wonder what would we be able to do if they wrapped up the budget

Finance committee  Well, to be frank, Habitat isn't one of the colleges that would actually benefit directly from that. That's really more an answer to be given by our partners, to see how they're tapping into that resource in being able to produce those funds, which we would then leverage to creat

Finance committee  Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity and invitation to share what Habitat for Humanity is doing to help train youth with the skills they need to join Canada's labour market. Many of you are familiar with Habitat for Humanity as a leading developer of affordable home ownersh