Natural Resources committee  I agree. A labour market development agreement is a deal with a Canadian province whereby the federal government writes a cheque and then the province delivers curriculum with no policy constraints or milestones.

Natural Resources committee  Yes, sir.

Natural Resources committee  Can you read the entire sentence?

Natural Resources committee  At this time there is not a lot of coordination—

Natural Resources committee  That's a great question. Just for the members of the committee who don't have all the information about an apprentice program, usually it's 80% in the field working, and then 20% in the classroom. The community colleges are completely limited by the amount of budget money they r

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for the questions. We are working on the drug and alcohol policy. Currently, before you go to a work site, you have to go to a third party and test for drugs and alcohol, and then you're let on the site. That process usually takes about three to four days, so that's three

Natural Resources committee  Thanks very much. I just had to sign a liability waiver from the clerk there, so I'm not sure....

Natural Resources committee  I'm just joking. Thanks for inviting us back. We are the Canadian building trades. We represent, at last count, I think close to 550,000 skilled trades workers across Canada, in every province and territory. Today I will talk about innovation in the energy sector—I call it “emp

Finance committee  Yes. It's tough in our trades, because the work is highly specialized, and these folks only exist in a few places in the world.

Finance committee  I had a bad dream that I had said bad things about Bill C-377 today. At the end of the day, the partnership we have in place with the Government of Canada on such things as Helmets to Hardhats or with Minister Flaherty, Minister Finley, or Minister Oliver, etc., are based on an

Finance committee  Did you say the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board? I never—

Finance committee  I live in Ottawa now, but I'm from Oakville originally.

Finance committee  I'll speak to the skilled trades. I can't speak to some of the other sectors. In our slice of the economy, the temporary foreign worker program is used effectively as a complementary HR tool. There are situations in which people are brought in from all around the world to work

Finance committee  Sure. The infrastructure stimulus fund that moved us through the recession absolutely kept people working in the thousands. We work with the Canadian Federation of Municipalities, and at the end of the day, I think municipalities, provinces, and the federal government have a ve

Finance committee  Chris Charlton introduced this bill, maybe eight or nine years ago, as a way to get the discussion going on mobility. It currently is in the mix in terms of private members business. She has told me that if the government decides to put some of the spirit of her bill into a budge