Human Resources committee  We mentioned that COPS is one of potential tools that would probably do a better job, to supplement that with sectoral information. We can work as partners. One of my first answers is that to try to predict the future in terms of new jobs will always be a challenge. It's not so

Human Resources committee  It's a real challenge to help youth make choices in their careers. We have to figure out who are the best people to target to ensure that they can influence the kids when they have to make their career choices. That has always been a challenge. We're looking at how we can ensure

Human Resources committee  Yes. I will say that on that front there are a number of good programs under the youth employment strategy that could be used to do that when, in particular, we are thinking about skill links, which try to support youth at risk to try to bring them back either to school or to w

Human Resources committee  I can look back at what kind of detail could be provided. The challenge depends on how much information you need, because I would like to figure out how we define regions. We can probably provide numbers by provinces and probably by some level of this aggregation when we look at

Human Resources committee  I think we know what is going on. We have been receiving more and more demand for temporary workers. More and more employers are asking for labour market opinion, because that's a job the department is doing for each employer. The demand for labour market opinion has increased re

Human Resources committee  Basically, the labour market opinion is for two years. If you want to have temporary foreign workers for more than two years, you have to ask for another labour market opinion. It's treated like a new one.

Human Resources committee  I did mention that one of the—

Human Resources committee  As part of my opening remarks I mentioned that we are now looking at improving the process by accelerating the labour market opinion approval process.

Human Resources committee  The main tool we want to use more and more is the Working in Canada website. We want to be able to post more job openings there to ensure that all job seekers in the country can get that information and know where there are job openings in Canada. That's one of the things we want

Human Resources committee  I cannot answer how many we have now. I can give the number of temporary foreign workers that came in per year. In 2007 it was 128,000. In 2008, 175,000, I'm rounding the number. In 2009 it went down to 103,000, and in 2010 it was 113,000.

Human Resources committee  I don't have all the statistics in terms of area. I think we could have added some more details, but I know about 28,000 temporary foreign workers come for the agriculture sector. That's one piece of information, but I don't have the other specific numbers.

Human Resources committee  I think we have the tools. We could have data for national occupational standards.

Human Resources committee  We don't do follow-up. The jobs are jobs posted by the employer. Right now we use mostly jobs coming from the job bank, which is linked to the WiC website in Canada. That was the main source of jobs for the job openings, which covers only a subset of all the jobs available in the

Human Resources committee  I don't know if our intention in the future is to track that information per se. WiC is not only about the job posting, but also additional information that is provided by the local labour market. Basically, the main source of data to determine what are the wage rates that people

Human Resources committee  Yes, you're right. I think trying to forecast the future will always be a challenge. We have jobs appearing and disappearing. Most of the tools we have to try to make projections are based on the past. We use data from the past to try to forecast the future. Right now that's th