Finance committee  Right: good question. Let me unpack it in a couple of different ways. The first issue is that we just don't have a grip as a country, or even in any province, on what are the different barriers being faced by apprentices. To answer the bigger question that I think all of you sho

Finance committee  First of all, as publicly funded institutions, whether universities, community colleges, or polytechnics, everybody has their reporting tracking. They have to in order to get their operating grant from the province and the provincial capital funding for “bum in seat”. So the issu

Finance committee  Restoring money is not the same as asking Statistics Canada or ESDC or any bureaucrat to do something new. We need to do something new. So now—and we have seen this through the whole debacle of the temporary foreign worker issue—we really don't know what the publicly funded insti

Finance committee  Today the program is $50 million per year, made up of different kinds of multi-year grants. There are, I think, 96 eligible colleges and polytechnics bidding for that $50 million program. We have seen that, over the last three years, 73% of peer-reviewed, good quality application

Finance committee  You know, with respect, that's been going on year after year. We put some money out to promote the trades, try a trade program. There are how many different ads that we've seen in the Winter Olympics—

Finance committee  Yes, I'd say it's much more important now to get the data on the earning power of the trades professions, the high-demand trades, and really what you can earn as a power engineer, a power line technician, etc.

Finance committee  Who can disagree with wanting better longitudinal, detailed, granular information? So, yes. But what I think is the most important point now is that when you actually look at all of Statistics Canada's existing tools, they represent a rusted toolkit measuring backwards for the

Finance committee  You're asking a very good question, Mr. Brison. We're now calling it the labour market information council, and we've adjusted since our early August submission to you. I struggle with this question all the time. I go back to my days at the Jenkins panel. The machinery of gover

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Saxton, for your question. I'm sure that my time is limited, Mr. Chair, so the main point is that I'm going to pick up on a question that Mr. Keddy asked of our university friends the other day. We have data to show you on all of our programs, whether t

Finance committee  You're asking me to talk about the past. It's in a state now where the regs are being designed by ESDC. So, with respect, I don't know the nitty-gritty yet. It hasn't been announced to the public. But I know in regard to what we lobbied and advocated so strongly for, that one of

Finance committee  Thank you. Our thanks to you for including us in your important annual hearings. I'm Nobina Robinson and I'd like to recognize Dr. David Ross, president and CEO of SAIT Polytechnic in Calgary, one of my board members and someone whose support is critical to our advocacy success

Finance committee  We are tethered to the provincial governments; universities are independent organizations.

Finance committee  It's a shared issue. The Council of Ministers of Education is there. It has not actually gotten to this question. Part of the problem is that universities are still their own entities, and so currently it is per institution that you have to negotiate the credit transfer. B.C. h

Finance committee  I don't see companies wanting temporary foreign workers at that pre-apprentice, first level of apprenticeship, and you mentioned apprenticeship. I think that the hunt, rather, has been for certified workers who can perhaps be paid less at times. I wouldn't want to mix up apprenti

Finance committee  I believe it can. I have to say that I'm not in government, but having seen the historical attempts.... There were attempts to seek accountability for the health transfer, for example.