Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, that's not before they come to the country.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Thank you.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  On our funding level, we are funded to do our research at $280,000 a year, with three staff, and we have two training programs that we do for persons with disabilities and Ontario works, which is for people who need skills to enter the labour market, at about $500,000.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We have several approaches. One is we work with people who have moved to our region and they're already there, but our main goal is to grow the workforce so it will be a targeted approach to get people to move to the region who are looking for the type of work that we have availa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I'll start with the volunteers. I can use myself as an example. When we moved into the rural community—we're on farmland—the neighbours came over and said, “This is what we volunteer to do. What would you like to do?” It wasn't, “If you would like to do it,” it was just an automa

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I would have to say offhand that no, we haven't seen a lot of the benefits of the housing situation in our region. I know that our local municipalities are working towards changing some bylaws that will allow some different types of housing, but we haven't seen significant moveme

Citizenship and Immigration committee  It depends on if you're looking at the municipality or the county, lower tier, upper tier. Yes, there were many things that disqualified our region.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think we need to take into consideration the labour market situation. We have a lot of jobs and we have a low unemployment rate, which means we don't have the bodies we need to continue to support economic vibrancy in our region. If we looked at that as a reason for an investme

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. We speak very closely with our boards, and there's a lot more work happening with the Bruce Power life-extension project. There are a lot more people moving into our region, so there's a lot more work happening around this integration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Absolutely. Recently, we partnered with a company in Toronto to help train refugees and then bring them to our region, which is the town of The Blue Mountains, where we need workers in hospitality and tourism. You have that strain of having people in a housing situation in Toron

Citizenship and Immigration committee  When we talk to our local municipalities, and through some of the funding applications that we put forward, we do talk about the lack of transportation and what we can do. Our funding is not appropriate for what we need to have in transportation. That's for sure. Recently we offe

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We are funded by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities for the work that we do for workforce development.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we don't.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes, we should for workforce development and integration.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, we don't. We are primarily funded.... I will clarify that our funding comes through the labour market agreement. The agreement between the federal and provincial governments is where the funding for local boards comes from.