Human Resources committee  There are a number of programs put forward either to increase the skills of people or to have them come back to the labour force. If we look at trying to have more people participating in the labour force, we have programs that are targeted to people at risk. We have the opportun

Human Resources committee  I will try my best to answer that question. Basically, when we look at the aboriginal labour market program, right now there are three types of programs. We have the aboriginal skills and employment training strategy. There are five years of funding for that. It provides funding

Human Resources committee  I will take that question. First of all, in terms of following the EI operating account, it's both the expenditure and revenue under the operating account. It is published as part of the public accounts. With regards to the financing of EI, right now we have the Canada Employme

Human Resources committee  At the time when they took the decision, it was decided that $2 billion would be enough to face the kind of fluctuation in the economy we were having at the time.

Human Resources committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me. I didn't bring that. It's higher than the current rate. The EI operating account, as you know, was in a deficit because of the economic downturn; but I don't remember the level that was indicated. It was part of the Chief Actu

Human Resources committee  As it exists right now, I think the legislation provides that if they were to have a surplus, the CEIFB should maintain a $2 billion reserve.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I think I remember that was one recommendation made at the time.

Human Resources committee  If you were to do it in a given year, yes.

Human Resources committee  Yes, it was both the creation of the new Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board in 2008 and its ability to set the rate on a going forward basis. Moreover, there was an instruction to this new organization to look at the balance starting in January 2009, going forward.

Human Resources committee  Yes, at the time the maximum increase was set at 15¢ per year. The government, as I remember last fall, as part of the budget, decided to have the maximum increased up to 5¢ for the coming year.

Human Resources committee  In 2009 one of the big achievements we had in terms of mobility, both internally and in ensuring that people coming from other countries or who had been trained in another country could have more access to the labour market, was the pan-Canadian framework for foreign credential r

Human Resources committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and distinguished members of this committee. My name is Louis Beauséjour and I am the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of the Skills and Employment Branch of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada. I am joined today by my colleagues, John Ath

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure we have a program that does that specifically, but I think the skilled partnership fund, when we bring people to be trained and work on specific projects, is one way we can increase their skill level and give them the opportunity to find employment. That knowledge an

Human Resources committee  No, I don't have those figures, specifically how many are successful after getting the intervention with the.... That was referring to all provinces and territories using labour market development agreement money to fund different supports for the 600,000 who are being trained or

Human Resources committee  When we look at the kind of programming we have in skills development, in fact we do recognize that partnerships are really key in all our programming. As I did mention, a lot of the programming is in terms of developing the training per se, and that's why the need is delegated a