Human Resources committee  Yves mentioned the sector council programming, where we basically try to bring together partnerships of people from specific sectors to look at challenges and demands for specific skills and jobs. That's something that is also used to determine the potential skills shortages of t

Human Resources committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and distinguished members of this committee. My name is Louis Beauséjour and I am the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of the Skills and Employment Branch of Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.

Human Resources committee  I am joined today by Yves Gingras from the Strategic Policy and Research Branch. On behalf of the department, I would like to thank the committee for the opportunity to speak with you today on our skills development activities in support of high-demand occupations. HRSDC aims

Human Resources committee  I can do that.

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  That's not investigated.

Human Resources committee  My understanding is that it's based on their review of the file for a specific year, and we look at the real savings that would be associated with those specific cases and the payments that are being made during the extended period.

Human Resources committee  I think it was 2006-2007.

Human Resources committee  It's a snapshot based on one year looking at the files, and an estimate based on the review of the file.

Human Resources committee  Since we had to do a manual review, we did it for one year to get the sense of the cost. Doing it for all the years would have been extensive work, and we didn't do it. We thought that having that one year would give us a good approximation and good estimate of the potential savi

Human Resources committee  I'm not aware why they picked those specific years.

Human Resources committee  I don't have that information here. We may have it, but I don't have it here. I don't know if that work has been done. I don't remember seeing that kind of work.

Human Resources committee  I think we did it for one year because this was an intensive fall review. We don't have the information for all the other years. We will have it for one year, in terms of how many people. The 1,500 and the 700...it was coming for one specific year. I don't know to what extent w

Human Resources committee  I think they were asking for both.

Human Resources committee  It's difficult to comment about what is exactly unfair and fair. Everybody has different views about what could be unfair and fair, but clearly, what I could say is that there are really limited circumstances under which the EI act provides for an extension of the benefit period