Transport committee  Ms. Tiessen referred to having enough seats in schools to train people. Every college in Canada teaching aviation maintenance engineering programs has a wait-list, some up to two years—the only exception is ÉNA out of Quebec—yet they're not producing enough graduates. Nobody's go

Transport committee  I believe they think that the gaps in education can be filled more easily than they can. I don't believe they understand completely that you cannot take a short course on the missing academic credential. It does not exist, so I don't believe they're working on a solution to that

Transport committee  You did. That was in a report published about two years ago by CAMAQ, which is the Quebec sector council for the aerospace industry.

Transport committee  Thank you, Mr. Rogers. I'm not sure what report you're reading from, but it is correct that colleges in Canada are required to teach what is mandated by Transport Canada. Transport says how many hours. It has to be in the classroom. It cannot be remote. There was an extension fo

Transport committee  As I alluded to in my remarks, we need to improve the process for bringing in foreign-trained workers, foreign AMEs. As I said, Canadian companies want to hire Canadians, but when we don't have them, we need experienced workers and better access to them. Adding those two NOC cod

Transport committee  Good afternoon. The Canadian Council for Aviation and Aerospace, CCAA, is a not-for-profit national partnership organization working with industry, labour, educators and government. CCAA is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to the labour market and the workfor

Industry committee  It's competency assessment, not following a checklist in a book. Those tools exist for competency assessment in our industry. The University of Waterloo is doing some great things. We have some competency assessment tools, but we need to move to that and move away from hours-base

Industry committee  Yes. It will increase our competitiveness.

Industry committee  It remains that they are hiring people off the street because they can't convince people to move from Mississauga, and they can't hire locally with the skills coming out of local colleges. Those types of programs need to be supported. There is no equivalent today, other than a p

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Poilievre. I agree with you. It is a travesty that we have these dramatic skill shortages that are preventing Canadian companies from being competitive, causing them to turn away work because we don't have the workforce to do it. All of those examples that you ga

Industry committee  Absolutely. They've been doing it for 20 years on Air Canada aircraft.

Industry committee  That's correct. You've got it exactly. That's exactly right, and because they didn't study, for example, cloth wings back in Berlin, now they have to do a gap training on cloth wings, but they can't do that, just that little piece, at a Canadian college. Colleges aren't set up

Industry committee  Yes, sir.

Industry committee  That's correct.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Masse. In terms of your first question about training in the workforce, as I say, we have such limited capacity in our country and so few facilities. People from northern Quebec, for example, have to move for three years to Quebec City to do their training, and th