Human Resources committee  For us it's more from the province of Ontario perspective. We were engaged in work with the Electricity Sector Council, where actually a large focus was put on the need to make skilled trades sexy again, and to get out there and really raise awareness around the opportunities and

Human Resources committee  One was the employment readiness course we talked about. If people had been out of the workforce for a period of time, it would provide that support in terms of reintegration. The second point was around the placement opportunities, providing for those points-in-time placements

Human Resources committee  Just as an example of that, we have a contractor and then we're an operator. In the lower Mattagami project, we're the people who are going to operate and we gave the bill to a contractor. So, for us, the 25% equity stake for the Moose Cree was really important, and putting our m

Human Resources committee  To the best of my knowledge—and I will go back and verify this—the camps themselves have been going on for about three or four years, and there are six throughout Canada. They run for about a week and often engage either students from university or some industry people who give u

Human Resources committee  I'm going to have to verify that, because I would be guessing.

Human Resources committee  Yes, the mining companies—

Human Resources committee  I'll respond to that question as well. In my comments, I mentioned two things. One was the John Wesley Beaver awards. What we do try to do out of that is have them in for a work term, and then when they graduate, we try very much to get them on full time and bring them up throug

Human Resources committee  I could not tell you how many. I'd have to get back to you on that. However, I can say that we do have 139 self-identified first nations and Métis employees in OPG right now, and that's aside from the lower Mattagami project, which is a design-builder-contractor approach where th

Human Resources committee  There were other opportunities. There were fewer in terms of being able to capitalize, but we did have a number of apprenticeship areas. The building trades unions helped participate in this process. We did get a number of people who were starting to go through their apprenticesh

Human Resources committee  I must say I'm not knowledgeable enough to answer that. I would have to go back to the project and see what the barriers were. In the case of the lower Mattagami project, it is a residential project. It's literally out in the middle of nowhere. Anybody who works on the project

Human Resources committee  We have experienced the same thing. The majority of jobs where we have been able to employ first nations—particularly at the lower Mattagami project, which I'm most familiar with—are in the areas of catering, surveying, and working on the roads. They are more the entry-level, low

Human Resources committee  In the case of the lower Mattagami, we didn't have enough positions requiring that skill set of heavy machinery. So what we tried to do, if individuals had an interest, was to refocus them on something that might have transferable skills, so that the retraining efforts would be l

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Good afternoon, and thank you, honourable members of Parliament, for the opportunity to speak to you this afternoon. I thought I'd tell you a brief story about Ontario Hydro. Ontario Power Generation's roots were in Ontario Hydro. Prior to 1950 we were almost exclusi