Human Resources committee  Our numbers are exceptional. For example, for our GMP skills check we had over 27,000 downloads last year.

Human Resources committee  No, we do not.

Human Resources committee  The program that we've done for the biomanufacturing and for the bio-transfer has just been launched in February. We do have a tracking tool on that right now. We had several dozen going through the program as it is, but it's not culminating until December, but all of those will

Human Resources committee  Certainly from all of the research, both allegorical and anecdotal, the agrifood sector is booming. There's no question it's one of the things that's driving the Saskatchewan economy, specifically in those areas. What I've heard, certainly from the SME standpoint, is very inter

Human Resources committee  No, not currently. Unfortunately, biotech has a very broad vertical. We have not stated specifically for verticals like medical devices or nanotechnology or aquaculture or anything like that. However, it would be wonderful to be able to see if we could align our programs with tho

Human Resources committee  The answer to that is absolutely. I'm sure I had a few people wondering when I said the words bio-economy. The problem is that we have a vertical in biotechnology that touches on so many others all the way—pharmaceutical, health care, agriculture, as you say, veterinary medicine,

Human Resources committee  The bad news is that I don't have that information for you right now, or I should say, I could have it in some form, but it's outdated. It's four years old. The good news is that we're currently conducting a new labour market study, a scoping one, in Canada, across all of the lev

Human Resources committee  Are you saying the programs that we're currently running?

Human Resources committee  Do you mean students, or job seekers? There's a big difference.

Human Resources committee  Yes, indeed. Currently, because we're not able to take them into the employment standards and because of the fact that we have to link the two—we have to both get the job seekers to use our online tools, and then have the employers register to hire them on that—it's very difficul

Human Resources committee  Currently we have a two-arm approach in terms of the way that we operate. We certainly had a core fund through the sector council program, which is no longer going to be existing, but in terms of our labour market information studies and all of our products and tools that we prod

Human Resources committee  For the biotech sector, essentially the bio-economy of the biotech sector is arranged in five clusters, which are regional clusters across Canada. So I would say if you asked me when I talked—

Human Resources committee  No, and that is the single biggest issue because not only are they in five different clusters, they're often across different verticals. For example, in Saskatchewan, the cluster there is very heavily agrifood, agrifood-based biotech, and in Vancouver, for example, in southern B.

Human Resources committee  Did you say BIOTECanada?

Human Resources committee  They're two different organizations. BIOTECanada is the member industry association for biotechnology. BioTalent Canada was founded in 1997 as a sector council program.