Industry committee  That is very difficult to say, because there are no quotas in terms of which industry these internships are going to be in. They will be in high-demand areas, which includes STEM jobs and it will include the skilled trades. When we're talking about STEM, for example, it does in

Industry committee  There will certainly be internships. The availability is there, right? So I would assume that there are companies out there that are interested in providing these internships to skilled youth.

Industry committee  Absolutely.

Industry committee  The biggest challenge is in putting these agreements in place. I'm just speaking now to the labour market development agreements because those are our next big set of agreements. It's not that it's a challenge, but we are working in partnership with our provincial and territorial

Industry committee  I think the provinces and territories very much recognize the importance of employer involvement in training decisions, that in order to fill the skills gap it is important to have a closer relationship with employers and input from employers, as well as a stronger consultation e

Industry committee  As I said, the Canada job grant has certain parameters around it to make sure that it addresses that very issue of employer involvement in training decisions and employer investment in training. That is core to the Canada job grant. The implementation and the monitoring is up t

Industry committee  Alexis, my colleague, alluded to the fact that we are renegotiating, reforming, transforming three labour market agreements, and those are agreements with the provinces and the territories. So we're working closely with our partners. I have spoken to the LMAs briefly, but we're

Industry committee  Our biggest challenges in terms of working with our...?

Industry committee  Yes. Let me talk about career focus, because I think that is really the key program under the youth employment strategy that helps youth and helps that sector, and that program is primarily an internship program. I can tell you a little bit about how it works because we have ma

Industry committee  It's called career focus.

Industry committee  Through career focus we do provide youth, and as I said, primarily youth with a post-secondary degree, who have all the academic requirements but are lacking the work experience to successfully settle in the labour market. It is a wage subsidy to help them get a job with an emplo

Industry committee  Yes, I can speak to that. I'm going to start off with youth. You were talking about young people—

Industry committee  —getting into the labour market. It's very important. I think it's a key part of this conversation. We know 75% of our new labour-market entrants over the next decade are going to come from the school system, so when it comes to skills gaps and areas to fill—

Industry committee  We recognize that, and we have the youth employment strategy, which is an investment of over $300 million—$330 million—for youth. It has three parts to it. It has skills languages for the more vulnerable youth segment. It has career focus, which is primarily targeted toward post

Industry committee  First, I want to mention that these are provinces and territories implementing the Canada job grant. But there are certainly certain parameters around it when we're talking about the $15,000 maximum. It is for a direct training cost. It is for tuition. It is for books and whateve