Refine by MP, party, committee, province, or result type.
Finance committee That's very good. Thank you.
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee Thank you for the invitation. As you may or may not know, I run the economic forecast at the Conference Board. One of the concerns we have, looking at labour markets in general for Canada, is the impact of tightening labour markets and what it will mean for long-term economic gr
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee It's a huge cost to have youth out of the labour market if they are looking for work. I think you're absolutely right when you're talking about this increase. We have seen a significant increase in part-time workers recently and that certainly displaces when you look at youth e
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee Thank you for the question. Yes, we do like the job grant program, in the sense that it is driven at the core by an investment in terms of dollars from those organizations wanting to hire. We feel that it is a very good signal in terms of driving where the money is spent with th
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee I think so as well. It's not clear that across all regions there are huge gaps in the need for skilled trades, but there certainly are some regions in this country where there's a desperate need for skilled trades and they're not finding the workers. There are two issues here. O
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee Yes.
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee Not to say that I'm against funding, it's just that I think there are two sides to every spending program. If we're conscious of that and we feel it is a worthy place to spend, all the better. Certainly we're concerned about youth employment—and I've talked about that—and youth p
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee I think we're always conscious of the financial situation that the governments are in and that when we spend in one area we have to obviously take away from other areas. Again, I think that in terms of job creation for youth, we certainly would prefer to see those jobs being cr
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee Maybe I'll let Ms. Schirle go first.
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee Just very quickly then on this temporary foreign worker program, I think it's been very effective at filling gaps. Especially for big projects when we've needed workers, it's been very effective for those organizations. The problem is that the number of temporary foreign workers
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee That is a tough question. I'm not sure that I have seen much data on that particular segment. We certainly have heard about it on a global basis. They're called the NEETs—Not in Education, Employment, or Training—but I'm not quite sure what those numbers are, to be honest, in ter
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee Well, having said that I'm not quite sure what those numbers are, certainly when you look at the 20- to 24-year-olds, you do see—as Mr. Poschmann highlighted—a very different situation there in terms of the unemployment rates. But I think in general we are seeing youth participat
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee Well, I would guess that most young people—if they're anything like my son—are still living at home, so you can imagine the barrier to mobility would be the cost of not only travelling and finding work, but of course finding a place to stay, so there are a lot of impediments. I
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee I don't know if I should leave the word to Ms. Schirle.
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes
Finance committee I'd just go back very quickly to the point that it's been a very good program. We deal with a lot of industry sectors. Businesses tell us how valuable that program is even though it is expensive and hard to apply, but it is looking like it's become a permanent program and the sto
March 25th, 2014Committee meeting
Pedro Antunes