The first steps that were taken, in terms of making work pay, were along the lines of employment benefits for people who work with low pay. More recently, the Quebec government presented an employment pact, in agreement with unions and employers. Of course, this was designed just before rumours of a recession started, but the aim of the strategy was, in collaboration with unions and employers, to develop training integration measures for the people who are either more distanced from the labour market or have specific obstacles. It's for almost all of the categories you mentioned: older people without jobs, recent immigrants, people with handicaps or obstacles of one kind or another.
It's not a single bullet. It's money that the Quebec government puts into training and into subsidies for employment--for example, to an employer who employs people who are out of the labour market in some way or another. In the last budget, just presented, there was more money allocated to these programs. Even in hard times, this is a priority for the government.