Thank you for the question.
As I said in my opening statement, I believe it's very important for the federal government to put forward an approach that gives workers greater access to funding put into labour market development agreements for the formation of human capital.
Currently, workers in more traditional jobs benefit from the social contract and social programs, but an increasing number of part-time workers and those without job security do not derive those benefits. We advocate a human capital formation strategy that puts all those dollars on the table and addresses all workers in need of further training.
Clearly, this has to be done in cooperation with the provinces, since they are the ones in charge of education and delivery of these programs. I wholeheartedly agree that employers and unions have a role to play. The past 18 months have been somewhat of a waste of time because the federal government put forward the Canada Job Grant without consulting the provinces, who are responsible for delivering the program. That wasn't the best way to go about implementing a Canada-wide approach to the formation of human capital.