Natural Resources committee  Sorry; I didn't quite get what the question was there. Was it about a math question? Because we have support—

Natural Resources committee  Yes, we offer up to $20,000 in wage subsidy placements to support job creation and training, but the average might be lower because sometimes the jobs don't last for the full 12 months. They are shorter in duration; therefore, the average might be lower, if that's what you're ref

Natural Resources committee  It's always difficult to give specific numbers when we're talking about a sector that employs people from a grade 8 level of education up to a Ph.D. and who are working for both not-for-profits and for-profits. The median salary within environmental work, if you count everythin

Natural Resources committee  The sectors that we saw growing would be work that considers environmental protection, which would be air, land and water. It would be within the management of natural resources as well as sustainability. One big shift we're seeing is that you need more people whose skills are

Natural Resources committee  I'd probably need a full hour to give you the full picture of that. The quick story will be that it's in energy efficiency, clean technology and some of the new emerging areas like the blue economy. It's also in the traditional areas of environmental work, such as land reclamat

Natural Resources committee  Those are things we grapple with all the time. To address a bit of the pay concern first, that was a bigger challenge five years ago than it is today, for two reasons. One is that salaries have increased significantly within the environmental sector. We do compensation studies e

Natural Resources committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for inviting me to share my thoughts on a fair and equitable energy transition. My name is Kevin Nilsen. I'm the president and CEO of ECO Canada. ECO Canada is a national workforce development organization that's dedicated to supporting Canada