Mr. James St. John at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On February 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.

February 7th, 2013 / 12:40 p.m.

Business Manager, Director, Hammer Heads Program, Central Ontario Building Trades

The only other program similar to Hammer Heads that I know of is in Vancouver. It's called BladeRunners.

Could this be replicated in other provinces? Most definitely. All of the provinces have building trade unions. Right now it's our building trades that fund Hammer Heads and collectively, in kind, it costs us $1 million a year to run this program. Those dollars come from us and are spent by us for the youth. There is no question that this could be done in other provinces.

As I said, to my knowledge, there is only one other program that was very similar, and that was BladeRunners. We took that model and expanded upon it to come up with this comprehensive 12-week program that we have right now.

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