Human Resources committee  I absolutely do believe training should be opened up, yes. That's what the LMDAs were providing. That was a wonderful opportunity when the LMDAs came on board because the provinces did not have the funding to be able to do that kind of training. Certainly, that was the difficulty

Human Resources committee  I'll make my comments in terms of best practices between provinces in outcomes of the programming, and then best practices in governance. In terms of best practices between provinces in outcomes of the programming, we don't know. The reports we have do not allow us to compare p

Human Resources committee  I think that we have these four segmented agreements to the following effect: this pot of money is for people who are EI-eligible, and there are fewer people EI-eligible; this pot of money is for non-EI; this pot of money is for disabled persons; and this pot of money is for olde

Human Resources committee  Yes, thank you very much. I think what we've done with the LMDAs and the LMAs is that we have sorted out, quite significantly, federal-provincial roles and responsibilities, meaning that the provinces have that design and delivery responsibility. I think we need to take that to

Human Resources committee  I can. Part of what I'm saying here is that devolution took responsibility, where the federal government has a continuing significant responsibility, and moved the design and delivery to the provincial level. But I think in this policy area we need to have a national perspective

Human Resources committee  I think our research capacity in the labour market field is significantly deficient. I think what we've done with devolution is that we have moved the responsibility to each one of the provinces according to an accountability framework for these various different agreements, and

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Good morning. My name is Donna Wood. I'm an adjunct assistant professor of political science at the University of Victoria. My area of expertise is comparative federalism. I'm interested in comparative federalism; I used to work as a public servant with the Government