Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Garrison. It's a little of both. I think we're getting more interest from people in coming into the industry, but capacity is a huge issue. As a practical matter, as I said, in 2018 Canadian colleges with wait-lists were only graduating 25% of the students we need

Industry committee  Yes, we have a number of programs that are directed at north of 60, trying to encourage students to join the industry. As I alluded to in my opening remarks, one of the problems is that if you take students from the north, there are no training facilities up there. That means ind

Industry committee  The first is updating the required curricula that colleges must teach. As I said, at the moment it requires colleges to teach how to fix cloth wings. I don't think that's of much use to WestJet, Air Canada or some of the majors. It also requires them to teach how to fix component

Industry committee  I'll stop there.

Industry committee  Mr. Baldinelli, I won't speak to anything except the labour market. I'll let AIAC, Tracy and others speak to those questions of consolidation.

Industry committee  It's my pleasure.

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Baldinelli. Thank you, Tracy. Yes, we definitely need more workers. We don't have the capacity in Canada to train them. We have one college in Quebec. People from northern Quebec have to move to Quebec for three years to go to school there. It's the same in other

Industry committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. Incorporated in 1993, the CCAA is a non-profit, national partnership that works with industry, organized labour, educators and government. We work exclusively on a national labour market strategy for o

Transport committee  You go first, Mark. No need to thank me.

Transport committee  It's about ensuring airline staff have the appropriate training and quality assurance training. It's the same thing for the regulators and the inspectors, ensuring that they are properly trained, know what they're looking for, and have the appropriate skills to do the inspections

Transport committee  It's not our area of expertise but from everything we hear anecdotally from those who say it is, yes, we do have high standards, but I can't comment on what changes would help.

Transport committee  We have started, I'm pleased to say. Last November, we had the first ever national labour market strategy day in Canada here in Ottawa. We had industry, governments, and educators in the room to start addressing the issue. Everybody spoke about the issues. We said, “Good; now we

Transport committee  We used to have a national labour strategy in this country. We no longer do. As I noted, we work very closely with ESDC on initiatives. We have projects pending with government as we speak to develop the labour market, either to develop new standards or outreach to youth or work-

Transport committee  My apologies. I went over the 45 seconds.

Transport committee  We don't lobby Transport Canada on the merits of different regulations. The trade associations do that. Our role is to help companies and the industry with training and standards to implement those. So we have training around quality assurance and around SMS, and we have national