Human Resources committee  I repeat, the permit should be denied. Changes in 2013 already ask employers for a training plan to wean companies off the program in the future. Why not in the skilled trades go the extra step and encourage actual hiring of Canadians during the TFW process? The Canadian Chamb

Human Resources committee  No sweat. Good afternoon, Chair, members of the committee, and fellow witnesses. I should have brought my entire communications team to help deliver my remarks today. That was pretty cool. CBTU represents 500,000 skilled trades workers across Canada in virtually all sectors of

Finance committee  I would agree with that.

Finance committee  Look, it's about what you want to do in terms of public policy to build Canada. Yes, I would agree with your statement, and it shouldn't be a voluntary system that was put in by the previous government. It should be a mandatory system of including apprentices on federal governme

Finance committee  I should have been an electrician.

Finance committee  North of 55% of the building trades membership goes to work every day on some sort of energy project, be that oil and gas, pipelines, or nuclear facilities. The energy portfolio, which includes oil sands, is an important part. There's no question that cancelled projects in Albert

Finance committee  I didn't know.

Finance committee  Thank you.

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  One of the things we've had success with on major projects is the builder or the owner of the asset saying to contractors that, in order to build on a particular site or in order to participate in building the site, they must hire and (a) have a training plan within their RFP doc

Finance committee  We can't change demographics. What we know is that in the next 15 years there's going to be a tsunami of retirements in construction and in the skilled trades. We cannot change the mode age of my membership, which is 52; that's the most frequent age. What we have to do is get the

Finance committee  Thanks for the question.

Finance committee  In our submission, the system that revolves around employment insurance doesn't touch as many people as the other model that I suggest. If we want to hit the maximum number of apprentices and the maximum number of folks, my submission would be to go the route of some sort of tw

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I'll answer the last one first. To get more first nations and women into the trades, employers have to want to do it, so we have to work together with them to change the culture and the hiring practices in the economy. We have programs that we work on

Finance committee  Yes, sir. The problem is not that they can't get there—