Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  I think you're entirely right. There's no agreement on the numbers, but there is full agreement that the workforce of tomorrow is changing, so automation is going to bring changes and the need for retraining. The people who will not want to retrain or will not be able to retrain

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'm pleased to be here on behalf of the National Association of Career Colleges. Being part of the panel is always interesting, as you can see. I can promise I will not offer to eliminate the subsidies of one of my colleagues at this table. We'

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, for having me again. I was here on Tuesday. I just want to confirm the rumour that twice in a week, five times in a month, it's like a frequent flyer miles program. After five times I get to sit on the other side.

Human Resources committee  I'm pleased to be here to speak on the subject of Bill C-31, the budget implementation act. I'm pleased to be joined, thanks to the fact that we have our conference here in Ottawa this week, by the chair of our board, Mr. James Loder. We will talk about apprenticeship more specif

Human Resources committee  Yes. I would be careful just to mention trades. I think there are skills as well. You want to be careful on that. At one point we're going to have way too much of one and not of the other. On any construction site you have an engineer and you have the technicians and you have t

Human Resources committee  I think the Canada job grant program is a good part of it, where we actually make sure that the companies are involved in the training and retraining. I'm extremely disappointed that in Quebec the federal government abdicated its responsibilities and basically gave the money to t

Human Resources committee  There's a historical focus over there, where you had professional groups and professions that started centuries ago. You have the unions, you have the employer groups, and you have the governments—the state government and federal government—working together. It was quite interest

Human Resources committee  I'm not sure I can give you all the explanations, especially not in the limited amount of time we have here today. What really struck me was that we had young 14- and 15-year-olds talking to us at one point, saying, “I have chosen this career. I have chosen this company. I am wor

Human Resources committee  My understanding is it's about 80% of our clientele that is receiving some type of financial support. In Ontario, the second career program from the Ontario government supported federally by federal funds is of assistance and it's in there.

Human Resources committee  Absolutely. Mr. Butt, in the recent budget we were hoping for one measure that would have really helped the people you are talking about. At this point—and I will digress a little bit—the Canada student loans program with the grant component is limited to supporting students regi

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would like to thank you for inviting the National Association of Career Colleges to speak about labour market development agreements. Since 1896, our association has represented for-profit and not-for-profit private institutions involved in post-secondary