Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for your invitation, Mr. Chair. Before I get going, I want to say that you're going to hear many of today's ideas repeated in what I have to say. I apologize; we didn't coordinate before we showed up. I am accompanied today by Matt Henderson. He leads our wo

Finance committee  I'm sort of agnostic as to who is doing the learning. We all need to be learning. The part that I'm passionate about is that we need applied learning. Polytechnics deliver that. When you think of the word “apprenticeship”, which is work-based learning, it has so much more promise

Finance committee  Thank you. Low economic growth does not have to be Canada's fate despite the rapid changes around us, but low growth is our destiny unless we change with the times. Technology has changed the global economy, our demographics; our workforce has changed; yet our policies for data

Finance committee  Sir, you're absolutely right. I want to clarify. You would know Red River College. Red River College is our member. We're not publicly funded universities; we're the colleges and polytechnics, just to clarify that. I totally agree with you. Every one of these higher education

Finance committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Albas. Absolutely, I totally agree. Yes, we suffer from that problem. Are there solutions that you can come up with? Yes. Let's be cautious. These are shared jurisdiction issues, so the federal government can't act alone. But what you're proposing is my u

Finance committee  Thank you so much for such a pertinent question. I'll just jump to the heart of it because you've heard me preaching already. I'm so glad that you are a recent graduate who actually understands that the future of work means diverse solutions. Ratios are not within the purview of

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and members of this committee, for including us in your important week of pre-budget hearings. Polytechnics Canada represents leading research-intensive, publicly funded polytechnics and colleges. All our members grant bachelor's degrees and of

Finance committee  I think it was in my opening remarks. I believe that all workers can innovate and that innovation skills are what we really need to be imparting to all our learners.

Finance committee  I think the best way to do it is through applied education where you combine the theory with the practical. That's my philosophical commitment to polytechnic applied education. But you see, up to now—and I say this with all the experience I gained from the R and D review panel,

Finance committee  Thank you very much for the question. That's exactly what we think the function of a new labour market information council should be: to have one stop where the supply side and the demand side are put together. I think the real users of such good new data would be high school g

Finance committee  Sorry, for some clarification on the second question: a role for government, when they...? Who's “they”?

Finance committee  I want to say that we have 300 or 400 trades professions; not all of the trades are in high demand. What we really need is to know which trades—and I would add further, the occupations, the professions—are in high demand from the employer side. We are seeing demand for some of

Finance committee  Many.

Finance committee  I'm maybe not totally hearing your question. With regard to the anecdote you gave about the police officer and the plumber, we don't know the earning power options. We just don't have the data. We know it in our local reality, but we need to make this available. That's number o

Finance committee  For the benefit of those who don't know—and I always run into people who don't know—apprenticeship is at least a five-way maze in the relationship between the individual, the employer, the training institution, the province that knows the seat purchase, and the federal government