LMDA funding—for the other members of the committee who don't know—is the part 2 training money from Employment Insurance. You have to be eligible for employment insurance to be able to access LMDA funding or receive employment insurance. We need to spend less on administering these funds and more on putting money in.
There's no one from the Government of Ontario here, so I'll stick my neck out. Of the LMDA funding the Ontario government receives, close to 50% of that money is spent on administration of the fund. It's not spent on training young people. I like Second Career; I like the Ontario government's idea. They spent a quarter-billion on advertising and administration. That's a lot of money. We need to make sure that when these LMDA deals are being negotiated there's value for money.
At the end of the day, if we want to upscale people who are on employment insurance, we better be training them for jobs that exist. We don't want to be training them to be unemployed. It's pretty simple. We need to train people for what the labour market is demanding in that region.