Human Resources committee  I can take this one, Mr. Harris. Not in terms of the modelling, but in terms of data, we now have access to a company that provides us with online job postings three times a week in Canada. It covers the whole country, all sectors, many occupations, and—

Human Resources committee  Mr. Harris, when we put this with the national projections we do, we provide that to our partners at the provincial and local levels. The idea is that they are building on this. I know there are products that take it to the local level, and we rely on them to take it to the couns

Human Resources committee  COPS is one approach where we try to develop an aggregate view, where we're looking at the national level and we don't go into the provincial or the local level type of information. It's very limited in that sense. This is something we provide to partners so they can build on it

Human Resources committee  There is a new survey from Statistics Canada. We now have figures based on September of last year, September 2011, that give us a measurement of the intent to hire for available positions by employers. We also have in the department the capacity to look at online job postings, wh

Human Resources committee  This is work we do internally. When we do the modelling, there is always a look back to see if things could be improved. The modelling is always improved based on these assessments that we do internally in the department. That's not publicly available.

Human Resources committee  On COPS, I will have to investigate how structured that is. The research is not structured in a way to be shared, but I will see what can be done. It's one element of what is being done in the department. There are consultations with industry that will inform the demand side. Th

Human Resources committee  I'd like to clarify. It's not something that's formal. The researchers take it upon themselves to look at the various components to look for improvements. We do not have a formal assessment that we produce internally. There are, of course, some reflections that are done every

Human Resources committee  Maybe I'll go first on this one. A number of activities are done to gather information on the demand side. One key activity, and one of the most structured, is around the Canadian occupational projection system that our department uses. It's been in place for many years, and it'

Human Resources committee  It continues to evolve, and now we've just produced a new set of projections. Every time there is a look at how it has performed, it's assessed internally in the department. In terms of helping users, this type of information that is produced is also evolving, and we're looking a