Human Resources committee  What has evolved is the striking reality that we're under contractual obligations to provide labour to employers and to large energy clients, and if we can't supply, someone else will. So the temporary foreign worker program is a supplementary HR strategy. It's not a fix-all. It'

Human Resources committee  That's the reality we're living in, so we've had to do that, because this is a market economy and we have contracts that say we have to provide labour to these companies. Look, I can't speak for every member in our organization--

Human Resources committee  --but what I can do is give you an overall sense, organizationally, of where we're moving. It's a reality that this is here and this is here to stay until in Canada we get it right, letting in the right numbers of folks with the right qualifications or training enough of our own

Human Resources committee  The testing for the red seal is determined by the Red Seal Secretariat. They determine who, where, when, and why, and it is administered by HRSDC. It's an opportunity. I know the four gentlemen who run the Chicago building trades in the greater Chicago area. They represent close

Human Resources committee  It's a “just in time” system, and we're almost out of time. When you look at the energy sector, you're looking at four or five big projects going on in Alberta, which require 10,000 folks per project. You look at Newfoundland, which has offshore oil and gas. You look at Point Le

Human Resources committee  CIC and HRSDC make the decision on these folks based on who the contractor decides they want.

Subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Finance on Bill C-38 committee  Thanks very much, Chair. I guess depending on where you sit tonight, where I am on the political spectrum is sort of up to you guys. I'm either on the left of you folks or on the right of these guys. Thank you for the invitation, and good evening, Chair, members of the committ

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

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  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  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

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

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