Human Resources committee  I'd like to say that this is a problem of long standing, and in spite of some changing rhetoric, the results don't seem to have changed. Maybe it's time for someone to ask why. I think there's a suspicion in the general public that some of the professional associations are a litt

Human Resources committee  In this country, research has shown that the greatest single predictor of a child's success at school is the mother's education. If we don't make sure that parents in the home have the proper level of understanding, then the children are not going to be well prepared for school.

Human Resources committee  We have a copy in the library on our website, which is available in both HTML and PDF formats, but I will send a copy to the clerk of this committee. There are also others. My colleague Sue Folinsbee mentioned earlier that there's a case study of workplace literacy in Manitoba. I

Human Resources committee  Yes, I just want to say quickly that the institutions often take a bad knock on this. Literacy is a moving target. If anybody entered the IT industry ten years ago and was still working there today without having had any upgrading, that person would be, for all practical purposes

Human Resources committee  In the briefs we've submitted and in the presentation we made this morning, we used the term “workforce literacy”. Workforce literacy captures all of those people who are not part of the workforce or able to get into the workplace.

Human Resources committee  “General literacy” refers to the opportunities given to those people to upgrade their skills so that they can compete either for more training places or for positions in the workplace.

Human Resources committee  I just wanted to say that over the last seven or eight years, the executive directors of the national literacy organizations have worked together to put into writing what we consider to be the need for a pan-Canadian strategy. In the materials that I brought, which have been circ

Human Resources committee  Yes. The report that was put out by an earlier version of this committee calls for a pan-Canadian strategy, and we in the literacy community ask for that because we feel that notwithstanding the fact that some excellent things are going on in various parts of this country, it nee

Human Resources committee  First of all, let me say, in terms of my own organization, that the $17 million withdrawn by the government from local provincial and regional literacy programming—essentially because it was local and regional and the responsibility of the provinces—impacts on us because a lot of

Human Resources committee  I'm Charles Ramsey, executive director of the National Adult Literacy Database, which is based in Fredericton, New Brunswick. It is one of the seven national literacy organizations in the country funded by Human Resources and Social Development Canada. We'd like to thank the com