Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, I truly appreciate your attendance. I have to say, I very much appreciate your genuine commitment to making lives better for many Canadians. I truly appreciate, as well, that it does not enable you to micromanage the minutia and that you have a supporting team to look after those elements.
Having said that, across votes 1b and 5b, the supplementary estimates (B) for 2022-23 propose to allocate approximately $13.3 million to address labour demand and training the workforce of the future.
Budget 2022 and the 2022 fall economic statement included a number of measures related to labour demand and skills development. These include introducing the tax deduction to support labour mobility for tradespeople; doubling the funding for the union training and innovation program, which supports union-based apprenticeship training; innovation and enhanced partnerships in the Red Seal trades; and creating a sustainable job training centre.
Which initiatives would be supported by the proposed $13.3 million to address labour demand and training the workforce of the future?