Human Resources committee  Are you asking me?

Human Resources committee  Sorry, I wasn't sure who you were asking.

Human Resources committee  There is something in place. It's called an “equivalency assessment” that the Ontario College of Trades does. You can present your training and they will review it, and then they will deem you to have your so-called certificate of apprenticeship, your C of A. They won't make you

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  There are pre-apprenticeship programs. The unions are already doing this. There are programs in place. There's ESL. There's a lot of this already taking place, but it needs to be scaled up. That's one of the issues. Also, I still think that the awareness issue in high schools i

Human Resources committee  That's very short-sighted.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I know. You're going to have people like that everywhere, in every industry, across the board. That's very short-sighted.

Human Resources committee  There was a phrase I used to have in on my email footer. It was something about those who are afraid to train their workers because they'll lose them. I'm paraphrasing it, but if you don't want to train your workers and you're afraid you're going to lose them, then guess what? Th

Human Resources committee  There are laws in place already.

Human Resources committee  The laws are there. I still think there's a huge awareness issue within Canadian society right now. You say they're closing down in Ontario. A number of years ago all the shop programs were shut down, so kids were not even taking shops anymore, which has a long-term affect as wel

Human Resources committee  Yes, but everyone nods their heads and nothing happens.

Human Resources committee  The problem is that there are some best practices, but they need to be adopted.

Human Resources committee  I have a couple of suggestions that I didn't actually talk about. The federal government has offered the loan program as well as the completion grants, but the federal government also controls a lot of money in construction. If they had procurement language not just for the big

Human Resources committee  The big issue is safety and language. If it's a new construction site and you have all these trades at work and they don't know what each other is doing, safety is a huge issue. If they can't speak English and comprehend, it becomes a problem. Let me give you an example. The Mi

Human Resources committee  Right.