Human Resources committee  Absolutely. The cost to Canada is $30.7 billion. If their credentials and skills were recognized, the increase in income would amount to about $30.7 billion. That's the statistic I had. Do you want to speak...?

Human Resources committee  Just in terms of the government level, one of the issues we found, for instance, is that when people who receive social assistance come to us for a loan, depending on which province, and depending on their social assistance officer, they are at risk of having their social assista

Human Resources committee  I will start and Dianne can add. Marketing has been one of our challenges. We have a huge impact for a very small organization and getting out our word across Canada has been a challenge. That's where we're looking to partner with government, with accreditation bodies, to help u

Human Resources committee  We have the ability to do it in that we have a very strong database of the applicants who apply to us. We have this longitudinal history in terms of their applying to us for a loan to start their accreditation journey, and we track them because they're paying back the loan throug

Human Resources committee  You go ahead, Dianne.

Human Resources committee  There has been progress on systemic barriers, but the accreditation process, you know.... There were so many different accreditation bodies across the country. They're all provincially regulated. They're not federally regulated. Some are not regulated, so it was such a difficult

Human Resources committee  Thank you so much. I know that this is supposed to be about homelessness, but in this opportunity for us we're going to be speaking on education, training, and employment strategies to reduce poverty in Canada. I'd like to begin with a story of poverty, survival, resilience, an