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Finance committee We did a report on the labour market, with the intention of providing the status of the current labour market. We also looked at the issue of labour shortages and skills mismatch. In that report, based on the data that we received from the Conference Board of Canada on the vaca
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee At the regional or at the professional level for various occupations—
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee Changing.
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee Absolutely.
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee We work with data and we do our analysis based on data. We cannot do analysis based on the assertions by employers associations. To us, that's not solid evidence. Any program in order be designed well needs to have the data to determine whether there's a labour shortage. In fact
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee It's based on the data that existed in terms of the number of jobs that were created during that period, and the number of temporary foreign workers that existed at the time. It's a very crude kind of estimate. It's very hard to develop that and look at the estimate of the tempor
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee We have not done that. As I said—
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee It is possible to take a look at that and get back to you. Other than having a need to have the data for the labour shortage, we also need detailed data from the government on the temporary foreign workers program.
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee We don't have that. We have not requested that, but we can.
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee As we noted in the report, we looked at all the measures introduced by the government since budget 2012, both the stimulative measures and the restrained measures, and it combined the two. We have evaluated the impact of those, and based on that, there is an impact of about 0.5%
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee As I mentioned in the labour report that we did, we looked at the skills gap based on the Beveridge curve that economists use. It's the relationship between the vacancy rate and unemployment rate, and as I said, the data does not support that. I realize that some employers asso
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee Certainly, anytime you lower any kind of trade barriers of a free trade agreement, this would have a positive impact on the Canadian economy in terms of the level of activity and employment. Then one has to look at the details of that and see exactly how that is working out, but
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee As I said, in principle, yes, but I think we do have an issue with the trade and exports in Canada. When you look at the trend in the contribution of exports to Canadian GDP since 2000, we have not actually seen any contribution from exports to the Canadian economy, which is some
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari
Finance committee We normally do not make political recommendations to the government. It's not part of our mandate to actually comment on policy and what the government can and cannot do.
April 29th, 2014Committee meeting
Mostafa Askari