moved for leave to introduce Bill C-240, an act to provide for the establishment of national standards for labour market training, apprenticeship and certification.
Mr. Speaker, the devolution of labour market training to the provinces has been an absolute fiasco. We now have 10 different provinces doing different training for one career. We have a carpenter trained in New Brunswick whose certification is not recognized in British Columbia. It is absolutely crazy.
The bill would introduce national standards for the entrance requirements in all the certified trades, the curriculum and the certification process. We would then have continuity. We would have a national human resources strategy for labour market training even though it has been devolved to the provinces in such a hurried mishmash that it is no good to the industry and no good to Canadians the way it stands.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)