Human Resources committee  Quebec has a whole system in place, where they have done it for years. Alberta has a system. But the systems in the different provinces don't even talk to each other. Yes, there are systems in use.

Human Resources committee  The red seal program recognizes 47 trades. In Ontario we have over 140 trades.

Human Resources committee  Yes and no. Some of the professional associations, the medical associations, act as gatekeepers. The accountants have been better. Bonnie was here before, and some of them have really good programs to recognize prior credentials. Bill 124 in Ontario, which has just been introduce

Human Resources committee  May I add one thing? If you do your apprenticeship in Germany, your academic studies, the time you have taken to learn the theory is credited toward further academic study. So you can do your trade, you can become a journeyperson, practise, then move into post-secondary educatio

Human Resources committee  I don't think there is any easy answer. There is an organization called WES, World Education Services, in Toronto, which works with people to figure out ways to evaluate their credentials. I think you could have that kind of system in place, perhaps, in Canadian embassies and c

Human Resources committee  Those are two little questions.

Human Resources committee  The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum two years ago released a study called “Accessing and Completing Apprenticeship Training in Canada: Perceptions of Barriers”. There are a few problems with apprenticeships overall. One problem is that there is no coherent apprenticeship system in

Human Resources committee  As Peter said, I'm Karen Lior, and I'm the executive director of the Toronto Training Board, which is one of 21 local boards in the province of Ontario. We are governed by a volunteer board of directors representing seven labour market partners. I'm going to talk about three th