Human Resources committee  Just very quickly, let me say with respect to the issue of job attachment for immigrants that obviously language is the main problem. A year and a half ago, we did what we call a market segmentation study of people in Canada: adults below the international level of literacy that'

Human Resources committee  I can think of two things. First, adult workplace training. Sixteen percent of workers in Canada take no training at work and do not want to take any. This can have a significant intergenerational impact on the children. That is why we cannot put all our resources in early child

Human Resources committee  There are certainly differences between provinces. But the problem of readiness is more or less the same everywhere. I mentioned that one child in four has problems when entering school. We need one system to analyze and evaluate readiness. At the moment, we have four different

Human Resources committee  As I mentioned earlier, a number of things flow from working cooperatively on training and sharing data between provinces, the federal government and stakeholders in education and learning, in the broadest sense of the term. As has been previously mentioned, even the informatio

Human Resources committee  In particular, we don't have a means of disseminating interesting or promising practices. We have some excellent practices in almost every area of social policy in various regions of the country, but we don't have the means of spreading them from one part of the country to the ot

Human Resources committee  I think Canada has several impediments when it comes to improvement, and those impediments revolve around the lack of mechanisms or ways of collaborating that exist in some other countries but not here. When we go to international meetings and hear how other countries do things,

Human Resources committee  CCL, of course, is a non-profit corporation that does exist independently from government but obviously is very dependent on federal government funding. We're awaiting a decision by the Government of Canada, through HRSD, with regard to its continued funding support. What the Gov

Human Resources committee  But our ability to expend the funding that we were originally given is extended until March 31, 2010, so we continue to function.

Human Resources committee  Good morning, everyone. Mr. Chair, thank you sincerely for the invitation to appear once more before the standing committee. Permit me to make some observations about the committee's work and commitment before getting to the heart of the issue. I would like to observe how much

Human Resources committee  We do, actually. In all of the work of CCL, I should hasten to say, we don't do a lot of interprovincial comparisons, because we think it's more useful to look at Canada as a whole and compare Canada with other countries. But we have quite a few comparisons among provinces for K

Human Resources committee  We have all kinds of models that will give us information there. For example, in Austria 40% of high school students are in vocational training programs. They have no problems with apprenticeships. They have no problems finding skilled workers for their particular domains, becaus

Human Resources committee  Earlier, I answered a similar question with regard to the level of funding. I said that it wasn't really a question that the CCL was going to comment on. In our opinion, no matter how much is invested in post-secondary education, we need to ensure whether or not the desired resul

Human Resources committee  Well, your diagnosis is quite correct. The human capital problem we have here will not be solved by immigration alone. We need to bring people with disabilities, aboriginal people, males who drop out of school, and basically rural areas into the workforce. The good news about ab

Human Resources committee  I'm very glad you asked that question. The tools are not there. I would like to refer you to our Lessons in Learning publication, “Canada's biggest economic challenge: Improving workplace learning”, in which we set out the instruments that Canada would actually need to improve w

Human Resources committee  Those are good questions. I'll try to respond to some of them. Indeed, it is the case that in our report we deliberately didn't focus on the amount of funding for post-secondary education, except to say that Canada has always been quite generous in the amount of funding we've ha