I understand, but ultimately you won't want people trained and dropped. That's fairly useless. I think there's a lot of evidence where new hire programs have been evaluated by HRSDC. They've been tried and they've had mixed results.
I think what you're doing right now works fairly well. It could be beefed up a bit with an EI premium rebate—and you can adjust the size of the rebate—not just to small firms, but to all firms. I think something like that would be very good in stimulating employment growth without paying for a bunch of people who are going to be hired anyway.