Finance committee  One thing we've been pitching for, which we think is really important, is if companies are going to use the temporary foreign worker program, which is a legitimate HR tool, it should be linked back to training. So if construction company A is bringing in 500 welders from Irelan

Finance committee  It's all coordinated through the local chamber of commerce. They represent all of the local businesses in that local market. I'll just address this really quickly. At the school level they would have a local employer council, which would sit in conjunction with the school—

Finance committee  Yes, at the school level. It would meet with the school on a regular basis. Also in Germany, the ministry of education sits on that board as well, from the state. That council operates very locally with local businesses to determine local economic needs. For example, the Stihl

Finance committee  Oh, my time's up. No, I'm just kidding.

Finance committee  The most important key learning was that not a single bit of training goes on in the German system without an employer at the other end who has already agreed to hire that person. Be it in a high school, a community college, or even at the university level, there are no programs

Finance committee  For the benefit of the group, in terms of apprenticeship completion, we have lots of people registering in apprentice programs, but a good number of them aren't finishing. There are really two ways to assist apprenticeship completion. We need to incent these people to move throug

Finance committee  If one of the streams isn't working they can move back and forth. In Canada this mix is more like 15:85, so 15% go into skilled trades. We have about 100,000 apprentices in the building trades system right now in Canada. They're working full time. They're making $30 an hour, and

Finance committee  Thanks very much. My apologies in advance, members of the committee and fellow witnesses, I'm dragging a bit from Politics and the Pen last night. I'm a bit nasal due to the red wine consumption. Thank you for the invitation. The Canadian building trades represent skilled trade

Natural Resources committee  Sure. There is a credentialling issue across Canada in construction generally. As you said, we have the Red Seal program. It works. You write your provincial ticket. You have your Ontario ticket. You can challenge the Red Seal, and then you can take that Red Seal and go anywhere

Natural Resources committee  We have pitched for a labour mobility tax credit, a few times. A grant from EI, or a tax break on expenses that people lay out to go to where the work is, was decided in the House of Commons not too long ago. It was Chris Charlton's bill, which was defeated. That was a bit disapp

Natural Resources committee  We work in partnership with the community colleges and the technical institutes across Canada. We sort of take turns offering the curriculum. Sometimes they don't offer third-year welding and so we would deliver that curriculum at that time, or if industry is really demanding it,

Natural Resources committee  Frankly, if someone is in an apprenticeship program, the government isn't putting any money into that training. It's all privately done by that individual. They're going and paying for their technical training, or the building trades are paying for their technical training, or in

Natural Resources committee  Yes, that's fair.

Natural Resources committee  We're operating at 100% capacity today in the available workforce for these projects. We're in a place where we need to be developing young people in the tens of thousands to get them ready for the mass exits that are coming. BuildForce Canada is an industry-led think tank. It u

Natural Resources committee  We would easily see that. First, those people would come home. They wouldn't be forced to work in western Canada or B.C. or Saskatchewan. You'd see a redistribution of the workforce. I believe they would go home and work close to where their families stay. Then, you'd have the ab