Human Resources committee  I'd ask the committee to ensure that while it looks at the challenges people have getting into the workforce, it does not forget about building the workforce for tomorrow and about looking at government policy through the lens of how this is going to address the skills shortages.

Human Resources committee  I want to clarify that I'm not for a second suggesting that there aren't innumerable impediments to people getting into the workforce and staying there. But I also want to urge the committee not to make these hearings irrelevant. I have to tell you that it would be very benefici

Human Resources committee  There is a remarkable degree of private sector labour market mobility, but there are still many government-imposed roadblocks to labour market mobility in Canada. If you spend some time in this province, you'll see that employers are finding new and creative ways of filling the

Human Resources committee  Sure. I think several things have occurred, the greatest of which is that there is a strong economy. Strong economies across the west have meant that employers are having to be far more creative than they ever have been in the past in terms of finding pockets of the labour force

Human Resources committee  My understanding is that the government actually did that in the last budget and put in place some form of tax credit for working Canadians, so I think there has been some progress made there. We've been big fans of raising the basic personal exemption as a means of putting more

Human Resources committee  That was my understanding, that it is for individuals, which we think is the way to go. You put the dollars in the pockets of individuals. In fact, when we ask our members what tax cuts are most important, often it is personal income tax cuts that our members see as being most he

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much, and welcome to winter in Alberta. We at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business do a great deal of work on skills shortages. That is going to be the focus of my presentation today, and I've had distributed copies of a slide deck that we're using on t