Human Resources committee  It's not an issue for us to get people. The issue is getting the work for them and getting them to continue this employment so they can complete their apprenticeship. That's always the issue.

Human Resources committee  Our work is cyclical, as you know—construction, service, maintenance, all those things. It comes and goes, boom and bust. We just got a forecast from BuildForce, which says that in the next 10 years it's going to be flat everywhere except Ontario. There's going to be a small perc

Human Resources committee  We do, yes, for our specific area of work, but other trades don't. There are certain shortages in other trades. In welding, we have specialty welders. We have a huge need for that. For instance, in Alberta, which has a massive intake of foreign workers, something like 78% of the

Human Resources committee  I'm not quite clear on the question.

Human Resources committee  We have apprenticeship programs that are under the Red Seal program, yes. All of our apprentices go through the Red Seal program, so it's nationally mandated, provincially implemented, and that kind of thing. Is that what you're asking?

Human Resources committee  We are doing a program right now with the Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, New Brunswick. It's a perfect example of what you're asking. The program is called REWARD. We are working with the clients and owners at Irving, and we've brought in some new apprentices for high-level w

Human Resources committee  In our case we're dealing with trades and technologies. We don't have the issues because we deal directly with our clients' owners and contractors and they tell us. We have joint committees that we work with. We meet with these people all the time and they say, “We need this, thi

Human Resources committee  A lot of times they have competitors that are bidding for the same work and we're talking to both of them, so they only give us so much information.

Human Resources committee  In my talks with the pipeline companies, I always hear from them that the biggest issue they have is not getting pipeline approvals or not getting the work allocated and all that kind of stuff, the permitting and that kind of thing. In the conditions set out by government and by

Human Resources committee  The amount of work from it is huge. It's massive.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I can.

Human Resources committee  Okay. I just got this from my boss a couple of days ago. I wasn't quite sure exactly what you were looking for, but I tried to answer the questions that were posed on the link I received from the website. To give you a little preamble first, I'm the director of training for C