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Human Resources committee  I have just a quick one. I don't know if you've heard from Bob Blakely from building trades or the provincial counterpart from New Brunswick about the Red Seal program. If you haven't, you should. It's interesting how it developed and how it works, and how it keeps that labour

October 2nd, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Human Resources committee  There is an example of what you talked about. When they reconstructed the Vancouver Island highway, they put as a condition of the contracts they let that they had to hire...it was a formula to hire apprentices. They graduated over 200 journeypersons through that construction pro

October 2nd, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Human Resources committee  I think there was some federal money and provincial money. Yes.

October 2nd, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Human Resources committee  First of all, I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough. I'm not making a statement about the five jobs for every vacancy. It's a fact. We have a 7% unemployment rate, a 10% real unemployment rate, and about a 17% youth unemployment rate. Those are the numbers in Canada. I agree with you t

October 2nd, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Human Resources committee  Well, I must be wrong. I want to be specific. There are some specific skill shortages in some specific regions, but we have a huge amount of idle capacity in our workforce that could be and should be trained to do that work much more quickly than it is.

October 2nd, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Human Resources committee  I mentioned in my brief that Newfoundland has a program, and Quebec has a training tax, in fact, that tries to stimulate investment in training. Again, the OECD argues that we should be spending about 3% of our national payroll on training; we're spending less than 1%. I'm not s

October 2nd, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I guess the easy answer to whose responsibility it is would be that it is everyone's, I would think. Part of the problem is that we now have a huge issue of a workforce that needs to be much more adaptable and mobile, but unfortunately, a long time ago, before any of

October 2nd, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you very much for the invitation to comment on the issue of skills gaps. My name is Ken Georgetti. I'm the president of the Canadian Labour Congress. I am also a steamfitter—or a pipefitter—by training. Before add

October 2nd, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me put it this way to you. I would know your reaction, but I'll just put it out. It would be like sending me over to Africa to teach African corporations how to bargain with their workers. You wouldn't want me to do that because you would say I have a bias, and I would be giv

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't think it makes much difference. It makes more difference in terms of the predisposition of the government in the jurisdiction where they are operating. If the government is weak, and the government is not insisting on certain standards for their citizens, then that will b

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Foreign Affairs committee  They would behave better than some, for sure.

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Foreign Affairs committee  They are excellent, and we need more of them. In fact, that's one area where we, the Canadian manufacturers, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce are working together to try to find more opportunities to find how to credentialize skills and how to deliver skill sets for the emerg

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Foreign Affairs committee  We don't have access to that data on the other countries.

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, in fact we have been asked by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions to go over, to have a visit with them and help them with mine safety, particularly as it pertains to coal mining.

February 27th, 2012Committee meeting

Kenneth V. Georgetti