Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, Minister. I appreciate that. Minister Hajdu, you were talking about the mistakes that provincial governments were making. However, I would say that if the Liberal governments at the provincial level were doing such great jobs, they wouldn't have all been los

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will be really quick. Because of what you just mentioned and the amount of information that we deal with for these two ministers—and I know they're scheduled for a 10-minute presentation each—I would like a unanimous consent to reduce that to five minutes

Human Resources committee  I think what you're touching on as to what's wrong—in my opinion and the opinion of many stakeholders—is there are not enough metrics in the legislation that talk about when barriers are going to be removed, what those barriers are and what the consequences are if those guideline

Human Resources committee  Thank you.

Human Resources committee  Thanks very much. It's a real pleasure having you here, Ben, especially on a topic like Mr. Lepofsky, who all of us has had a chance to get to know quite well over the past year or so. I really found it interesting in your report when you talked about how successful he was at

Human Resources committee  No.

Human Resources committee  Thanks.

Human Resources committee  I have just one quick question. I just want to address the question of my colleague Mr. Vaughan. I know he's not trying to disparage every business that is doing these things, because I know in Alberta right now with the downturn I have businesses in my riding that are keeping al

Human Resources committee  Thank you, I appreciate that. Ms. Nord, thank you very much for coming back. It's like you're a member of the committee now, it seems. You briefly touched on this, and I want to ask you to maybe expand on it. We've heard from business owners on the new skills training program t

Human Resources committee  Oh, absolutely.

Human Resources committee  Yes, I don't think there's any question that we have to have a focus on training. We certainly had one of our witnesses who was here again today talking about focusing as early as junior high school and high school on entrepreneurship and skills training, things I think we've los

Human Resources committee  Thanks to our witnesses for being here today. Ms. Mahboubi, you talked about some numbers at the beginning of your presentation in terms of the increase in precarious employment. In our previous panel, we had CFIB and CPA Canada saying that the percentage of precarious workers h

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I know it's hard. You talked about those four different types of employment, but if you were to give an example to us as a committee about how we would describe precarious employment, would you have one definition that would help us? Does C.D. Howe have a definition o

Human Resources committee  Certainly, what we hear a lot here when it comes to EI numbers is that welders, electricians and plumbers are not included in those numbers because they are contractors and business owners. That's the decision they make and that's the situation that works. I would be really curi

Human Resources committee  Right. You touched on it at the beginning. Looking at your graph on page 5, I agree that this is not something we've seen a massive trend in. It may be, as Mr. Fong said, that we just don't understand the underlying part of it yet. I don't think when Uber, Airbnb and those ty