Human Resources committee  Thanks for that question. I think you pointed to a pretty big challenge in trying to provide that right balance of getting individuals to have the incentive to look for work and to keep a job, and then trying to figure out what the best game plan is going forward. That's a reall

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. I think a range of things can be done to reduce the use of EI by getting people back to work more quickly. The first thing I would like to talk about is using a better referral system for EI clients. We have done some of the work towards

Human Resources committee  I could talk for a long time about little best practices, about best practices that certainly we want to see done in a systematic way across the country.

Human Resources committee  Sure. Thank you very much for the question. We certainly have best practices workshops in which we try to compare innovative ideas about what provinces and territories are doing. There is a wide range. I'd say that from 60,000 feet, what provinces and territories are doing looks

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Ian. Good morning to everybody. We only have about 10 minutes to go through the deck. So why don't we go straight to page 3. I hope this deck will be helpful in terms of really understanding labour market development agreements. I think it might take a coupl

Human Resources committee  Well, I think we could talk about national priorities, but I think it is important to distinguish between the harmonization of the system so that people can move while they're on training versus what has been achieved with chapter 7 that was agreed to by all provinces and territo

Human Resources committee  Chair, I think you're talking about what guidance we give provinces and territories in delivering this. There's a framework that's set out in legislation and then set out in regulations and policy that provides broad parameters about what this funding is for. We can basically pu

Human Resources committee  Well, I think that primary involvement is up front in priority setting. What we find is about a little less than half of the provinces and territories have a system, a mechanism whereby they engage employers up front, figure out where the best place is to spend money. That's a re