Human Resources committee  Certainly a lot of our focus has been on where we transfer money to provinces to allow them to invest in their own local labour market priorities to retrain and to upskill people who have either suffered job loss or are not firmly attached to the labour market, so that they can m

Human Resources committee  To be honest, I haven't seen the exact example you're referring to, so it would be difficult—

Human Resources committee  It would be difficult to comment—

Human Resources committee  Yes. We have a lot of experience with a lot of these programs. We've adapted as we've gone along. Through some of our new programming, we've taken positive experiences from the previous programs or interventions that we know work, based on our assessments and evaluations, and tr

Human Resources committee  I think absolutely it is, yes.

Human Resources committee  Certainly one of the department's focuses has been on working with provinces on exactly those kinds of issues. We are transferring almost $2.5 billion a year to provinces both for EI clients, through the labour market development agreements, and for non-EI clients through labour

Human Resources committee  That may be the most difficult question of all to answer.

Human Resources committee  Essentially, I deal with a lot of the program policy files that cross different areas of our branch or department. It's a very bureaucratic term for working well with others and coordinating.

Human Resources committee  Somewhere I have them, but I don't have in my hands the actual number of temporary foreign workers. We can certainly provide you with the information on the number of LMO applications. I would say that, as you know, the temporary foreign worker program is designed to be kind of

Human Resources committee  Thank you. Certainly, one of the areas where the department has focused its attention recently is what we call the accelerated labour market opinion, which is largely in response to employer demands and is an effort to speed up the labour market opinion processing times to get a

Human Resources committee  Yes, I will.

Human Resources committee  In regard to the specific project you mentioned, I'm not familiar with the project, but I would note that the government has increased the youth employment strategy envelope by $50 million. A number of our aboriginal programs, including the skills and partnership fund, which pick

Human Resources committee  With regard to your comment around the sector council program, I'm sure you know the minister has announced a successor program to that, the sectoral intelligence program, which is approximately $30 million. Part of it will focus on sectoral-based LMI, to try to build that into t

Human Resources committee  Essentially we've been working with the sector councils and other people who have interest in the program to get a sense of what their priorities are and to make sure that our call for proposals is consistent with what's going on in the labour market at the moment. That's one of

Human Resources committee  In respect to your first question, unfortunately I don't know if we're tied into that specific website. The department has made a lot of efforts to link our Working in Canada portal with other sites offering labour market information and with job sites, but unfortunately I don't