Finance committee  I sound like a broken record when I recite the number of websites that we use. We try to use channels of communication that actually target the audience. We know that youth in particular are looking for other channels of engagement with the government than previous generations. W

Finance committee  I want to touch on a point that I wasn't able to make earlier. Canada has one of the highest rates of post-secondary education attainment in the world. That's a good thing, that's actually a very positive thing. And we know that university graduates earn on average twice that of

Finance committee  I wanted to make reference to the various initiatives that the federal government has with respect to providing information to youth. We have a Working in Canada website where we provide customized reports that combine job postings, occupational profiles, labour market informati

Finance committee  Let me answer your first question. The easy part is I don't actually have at my fingertips the number of people leaving the labour market, but with the aging of the Canadian population we know that the growth of the labour market is slowing and that the percentage of the Canadia

Finance committee  One of the things I'd like to talk about is labour market information. The government has made a number of commitments in recent budgets and they're actually important in how you influence decision-making by youth. We know that the research suggests there are a number of ways i

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I am going to answer in English.

Finance committee  The government understands that its supports for youth in their transition to employment are critical to Canada's economic growth and long-term prosperity. I guess, as I noted in my opening remarks, the youth employment strategy is the main federal initiative aimed at helping you

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I will answer in two parts. We know that the employment rate for youth varies greatly between provinces. You heard from Statistics Canada. We also know that we have differences between youth in rural areas versus youth in urban areas, or highly urban

Finance committee  That's a big question.

Finance committee  I guess the government has signalled support for the apprenticeship system by announcing a number of new initiatives in recent budgets. I can't really do justice to—

Finance committee  I think it's also important to note that the OECD in the past year has released a series of significant documents, a survey called PIAAC, the Outlook document, and others, so to take just a single piece of information out of these major reports...I don't have all of the context f

Finance committee  It's important to recognize that there's a certain degree of underemployment that takes place, especially after a recession. We'll always have underemployment apparent in the labour market. It often takes time, for youth in particular, to find a job that matches their education l

Finance committee  We're happy to proceed however you wish.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I'd like to thank the committee for inviting Employment and Social Development Canada to appear before you today on the topic of youth employment. I'd also like to introduce my colleagues around the table, but we have too many of them, so I won't. They're

Official Languages committee  Thanks for the question. We actually need to learn from the four initiatives we're involved in now. We have to learn from our partners through the horizontal aspects of the road map, and then we have to continue to engage with the OLMC. We have to listen to the official language