Finance committee  Yes, I would agree, and again back to the point I made earlier, but anyway, just to qualify....

Finance committee  I'm assuming you want me to respond to it.

Finance committee  The short answer is I believe so. I think these are common problems that we're trying to find common solutions for. One thing I'll raise that's a bit of a disappointment is that some of the forums where there is this kind of collaborative multi-stakeholder dialogue are dying of

Finance committee  I feel like I've taken up too much time as it is with my counterparts here. I think I've made my point. The essence of our submission here is for the committee to look deeper in terms of the restructuring. I do want to raise just one point, and that's my only point here, on th

Finance committee  I feel obligated to say something about that. It's more the principle of this, and I appreciate that there are competitive issues to consider. In our submission to you, you'll see some charts that I've included. In a lot of ways, with respect to public administration jobs for y

Finance committee  That's a very good point. The group that has been impacted the most within the decline of manufacturing is younger workers. They're the last to get in the door and they're typically the first to get laid off when things go south. Again, anecdotally, we can look at some of the h

Finance committee  I'm not sure how much more to add on this, but just from our experiences dealing with some of our younger members, a lot of whom still work in manufacturing facilities as some folks have mentioned, it's still declining significantly. A lot of them expressed to us the frustration

Finance committee  Yes, I appreciate it. As I mentioned, the first one was about looking at retail and hospitality and looking at a multi-stakeholder dialogue in those sectors. It would be a dialogue about how things such as on-the-job skills training could be improved, especially as it relates to

Finance committee  Where I'm coming from with this issue, maybe also anecdotally—I still actually fit into the young worker profile, although way at the high end of it—but friends of mine and family members of mine really do want a job. They're willing to do whatever it is, but what's on offer to t

Finance committee  What's the question?

Finance committee  I'll respond, and if there's an answer in there somewhere that satisfies, we'll go from there. At some level, I agree with what you said. We had a chat while you guys were gone, and there is some common ground in terms of—

Finance committee  —some of the issues, especially around skilled trades and getting over the myth that there's something wrong about having a skilled trade job. Hopefully, we can explore that a bit more in depth. You're raising anecdotally the experiences of some young people who think, “I'm bett

Finance committee  Yes, I agree. Granted, my presentation didn't focus necessarily on pensions but the experiences that we've seen are similar to what Jean has said. Again, we can look at the state of pension plans as it relates to young workers. There has been a ratcheting down of the quality of

Finance committee  —unfair. It's a totally different role reversal from where it was a generation ago.

Finance committee  Good afternoon, Chair, and members of the committee. My name is Angelo DiCaro. I'm a national representative working in the research department of Unifor, Canada’s largest union in the private sector. Unifor represents 305,000 workers across Canada in nearly every sector of the e