Natural Resources committee  It's fair to say.

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  It's a mixture of two things. It's municipal infrastructure work, which Ms. Duncan mentioned, in Ontario, and also various shutdowns that are occurring in Alberta for maintenance cycles. When we take a snapshot, it really depends on what's going on and what's happening. However

Natural Resources committee  They're from every province. We have the travel-card system, so when there's no work available in their home province, or if they choose to go and work out west, they can travel to another location to work. We could endeavour to get a breakdown for you. Mainly, the workers woul

Natural Resources committee  For those living in the camps, I would say that 95% of the workers there would be Canadian, and 5% would be from either the United States or somewhere in the United Kingdom, if they're construction workers.

Natural Resources committee  I'll talk a bit about Kitimat. We'll do that one because it's the prime example right now. It's an LNG terminal in B.C. We're currently going through the planning stage for a workforce for that project with a major construction company and a major oil company. A couple of them ar

Natural Resources committee  I'm trying to be a bit funny.

Natural Resources committee  Yes. At the end of the day, these projects aren't decided overnight. Generally in the past there have been regulatory dances for five, six, seven, or eight years before people actually get on the ground and get to work. We know that has changed. We know that there are new rules

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for the question. It's timely. We are working currently on a deal with the National Association of Friendship Centres, a national organization that works in urban areas. We're setting up a system whereby, when they identify candidates who are ready for our industry or wh

Natural Resources committee  The best way to do it, we've found, is go directly to the purchasers of construction—the Suncors, the Shells, the CNRLs—and tell them when they make arrangements with their contractors to make it part of the contractual obligation between an energy company and a construction comp

Natural Resources committee  The Canada job grant is the first action that a federal government has taken on training in a long time. It's a step in the right direction. It will mean we're able to train more people through our training centres. We have close to 300 training centres across Canada and we curre

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Benoit. Good morning members of the committee, Chair, and fellow witnesses. I see Mr. Boag has his green socks on today, so anything I do probably can't beat that.

Natural Resources committee  Sorry, they're striped.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I'm here today representing the Canadian building trades, the almost 600,000 men and women who make up our membership, creating the literal foundation of our nation throughout Canada in every province and municipality. We represent the carpenters, the welders, the ste

Natural Resources committee  It takes us four or five years to cook a welder, the same amount of time it takes to cook a doctor or a dentist. Anyone we're training right now isn't a certified journeyperson until plus-four years. We really need to get it right now for the projects we're thinking about in 20