Human Resources committee  I would say we're seeing skilled shortages throughout, but I would say in particular for mining engineers. I think your question was around skilled trades in particular, but if I look at all occupations in mining, there are nine mining engineering schools in Canada. Enrollment

Human Resources committee  As we say in English, “there is no silver bullet”. I don't believe in creating a system where every industry anticipates its labour needs and then we limit workers' mobility so that we can manage human resources more effectively. If compensation is what motivates them, workers

Human Resources committee  Thank you. That problem exists. On our end, we envision a system where people have the ability to choose where they want to work, in the job market that is best suited to them. The question is this: can we eliminate the labour mobility barriers so people can travel to or work in

Human Resources committee  Sure. The last point I will make is that the labour market intelligence we have provided has been absolutely well valued and key to our industry. I think the most important element of that is how our industry stakeholders are using it. The one example I will give is from Saska

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the opportunity to be here again this afternoon. My name is Ryan Montpellier. I'm the executive director of the Mining Industry Human Resources Council. MIHR is a public-private partnership between HRSDC and the C

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It changes year over year, but currently about 75% of our budget comes from the sector council program and about 25% comes from industry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  It's a very good question. We are in the midst of an organizational transformation at present. We have enjoyed a tremendous amount of support in kind from the mining and mineral exploration sector over the course of the last 15 years, and we have tremendous partnerships with th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That number is probably focused exclusively on extraction.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I can give you a ballpark, and it depends again how you quantify it, but if you look at the engineering and geoscience side of the extraction industry, it's about 10%. That tends to be the mine managers and the supervisors. I would give you a ballpark of 10% to 15% of that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  When you look at the definition of the mining industry by NAICS and NOC-S, and you define the mining industry under a certain statistical lens, there are not a significant number of aboriginal people, who self-identify as aboriginal people, in supervisory roles. That I do believe

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  For the mining industry as a whole, that's correct.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  The definition of the industry that we use for our labour market information is approximately 200,000 people for the mining sector, and aboriginal people constitute about 7.5% of the mining industry.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Where to begin? You're absolutely correct that there is a plethora of mining and essential skills-related programs available to aboriginal communities, and it's sometimes very difficult to cut through the clutter of what does exist and what the best path is to move into a career—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  That's certainly the feedback we've been receiving as well. It poses a challenge when you move people to a central location for training and most of the post-secondary institutions in Canada are in larger urban centres. However, over the last few years we have seen an increase in

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you very much for the invitation, and good afternoon to all. My name is Ryan Montpellier, and I'm the executive director at the Mining Industry Human Resources Council, also known as MiHR. MiHR is an independent, non-profit corporation. We are a public-private partnershi