Natural Resources committee  I think it's critical. We can't be developing these programs without understanding what the employers' needs are. We have a number of colleagues here from the different colleges who could probably speak a little bit more to the program development that they're doing, but I thin

Natural Resources committee  There are 4,000 communities in Canada, so it's hard to say what each one will do. What we've been trying to do is build an archetype of maybe 10 or 15 different types of communities that we see in Canada and what those transitions look like. A lot of this boils down to what you

Natural Resources committee  It could include skilled trades. Basically, almost any role could move up the green continuum over time. Certainly the skilled trades could be part of that. The construction sector we see as a big part of it, particularly the energy efficiency industry that we talked about in our

Natural Resources committee  Is the question where we'll have job creation going forward?

Natural Resources committee  Fair enough. Broadly, yes, there will be job creation. We'll see it in every region of the country. We'll see it in a variety of different sectors. It's really driven by the investments that the businesses are undertaking to create those jobs. Sorry; it's a really broad questio

Natural Resources committee  It's tied to two things. First, the actual cost of tuition in the college program is higher or lower in different provinces. Second, there is the factor of opportunity cost. In Alberta, average salaries tend to be higher. If people have to take a year off work to retrain, the

Natural Resources committee  First of all, I totally agree with you that for a transition to be desirable, you can't have a big drop in pay or something like that, and it needs to be something in your community. You don't necessarily want to force people to move halfway across the country. I think those are

Natural Resources committee  Yes, it was 900,000.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I really appreciate the opportunity to present some of our findings to the committee. For those of you who aren't aware, the Conference Board is a non-profit research institute. We're now “virtual first”, with staff right across the country. We conduct research in ni