Finance committee  Any unique or better way to train more workers and get them on the job faster is something that adds value. If Keyano College is doing something and it works in Alberta, let's do it in Newfoundland. Pretty soon, Newfoundland and Alberta are going to be competing for each other's

Finance committee  Sure.

Finance committee  It is all about promotion of the skilled trades as a valuable career path, full stop. The Government of Canada can play a significant role in getting to people before they get to high school or while they're in high school or elementary school, to say that this is a valuable car

Finance committee  Absolutely. Skills Canada is a way to promote and get young people involved in the trades. They cover everything, from hair cutters to construction workers. There's a long list.

Finance committee  That's one way to do it, absolutely. We'd be supportive. We'd think about doing a P3 type of thing with Skills Canada and government, industry, and whoever else, absolutely.

Finance committee  It's important to get the regulation stuff right to spur investment, but we need to make sure the labour market policy is in tune with that. We can't roll out these great steps to get our country developed without making sure that the labour market and skills policy at the federa

Finance committee  I think we need to refocus. In the skilled trades, we have the Red Seal program, which already is a national forum, so to speak. When the federal government is giving money to the provinces for education and training programs, they need to think about the public policy implicati

Finance committee  That's a great question. There are really three ways it happens in Alberta, or anywhere across the country where there's a large concentration of work. You're either in a camp, which is provided by your employer, or you get a living-out allowance from your employer. It might be a

Finance committee  We can speak to the big jobs, the industrial jobs, but the best way to do it is to make sure there isn't inflation in the regional economy, and that's hard to control. When you have a shortage of skills—and that's the key of my presentation—the costs for everything go up. It's d

Finance committee  Thank you. Greetings, Chair, members of the committee, and fellow witnesses. I hope to give you a tip-of-the-spear view today of where we see the world and how Budget 2013 can hopefully solidify Canada's economic recovery and set us on the right path for the future. We are the

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  If there isn't other oil sands construction at the time or if there isn't other oil sands maintenance at the time to go to work on, it could mean essentially that those in the hall who I met in Calgary would potentially have to look elsewhere. Albertans, for one, might have to lo

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  In order to be a construction apprentice or in order to learn a trade, you have to be employed. You can't sit in a classroom and learn how to be a steamfitter. Eighty percent of your learning is on the job. Anytime we're able to increase the number of apprentices, or people who a

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Sure. If you have a regulatory system or people bogging projects down just for the sake of bogging them down, and those projects never see the light of day, with either a yes or a no, then the skilled trades folks in the construction companies never go to bid on those jobs.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  In terms of training more people and being able to partner with industry to say this is what's happening in sort of a logical process, absolutely. We're contractually obligated to provide labour to some job sites, so it would definitely help with that.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  The challenges we currently face are that there's uncertainty around when folks will actually be needed on the ground to build things. If there's a 12-year or 15-year regulatory dance for a major project, we can't look at our training scope and say we need to have 4,600 electrici