Human Resources committee  I don't know. Let me look at the books. It's tough. It's really the funding sources, and that's where we need all levels of government working together. What should the levels be? Let's work it out and get at it. What are the priorities? Everybody seems to have different priori

Human Resources committee  For the residential industry, we're behind the eight ball. We need the human resource strategic plan approved for funding. We have to develop our training system within your apprenticeship system that's there now, and also in colleges or other training centres if the training isn

Human Resources committee  Most were, I think, the realization of how hard they had to work on our sites. They just didn't turn up. They just disappeared and did not return to work. That was the majority. In dealing with affordable housing, I think we have to get innovative. We have some good visionary pe

Human Resources committee  We're totally mobile. The problem is that it's always west. It doesn't come back. But interestingly enough, the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce and the Home Builders' Association were involved in a job fair. We went into Alberta, into Calgary, trying to get our tradespeople ba

Human Resources committee  That industry is outside of our industry, but--

Human Resources committee  We've sat down with our immigration department in Saskatchewan and tried to look at opportunities. We're watching Manitoba. They were very successful in the Ukraine, I think it was, in getting people into Manitoba and into the housing industry. You really have to pick and choose-

Human Resources committee  They were placed in the industry. The group is through SIIT, the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies. Through CanSask, they fund these job coaches. The aboriginals would go to that group and identify themselves as wanting to get into work somewhere. The coach would the

Human Resources committee  I'm not saying “trained”.

Human Resources committee  They're off the radar. And those job coaches are now saying that the employable ones have been placed, commercially or somewhere. They didn't stick with our industry, but they're somewhere. The aboriginal people are now at the level where they definitely need some life skills t

Human Resources committee  It's just amazing. Where do we start? Yet we have a full team of aboriginal framers, and it is one of our best. I've never heard a comment. But now that a lot of other builders are taking on aboriginals, suddenly they're coming back at us and saying, our customers have some conce

Human Resources committee  I'm glad you're in your position and governments have to.... Health all relates to housing, the health of the community. Working with the City of Regina affordable housing committee, under the mayor and with Saskatoon...when you hear that in one of our communities the fire depa

Human Resources committee  The apprenticeship system for residential construction in our province does not recognize residential trades. They are just starting to do that. We're trying to build a system that is similar to Quebec's, where you have a journeyperson and a ratio of apprentices under them. A g

Human Resources committee  It's a big area to try to respond to. Saskatchewan has what's called Construction Careers Saskatoon.It's also in Regina and Prince Albert, I think. They have aboriginal job coaches to prepare their clients to understand the jobs they're going to. It has worked very well in the

Human Resources committee  For our industry, in fact we have a national education and training committee at the Canadian Home Builders' level, in which reps from across the country get together and report on who's doing what in our residential industry, but that's from the standpoint of attacking our labou

Human Resources committee  I'm the co-chair of the Construction Sector Council labour market information committee in Saskatchewan, along with my counterpart from the commercial sector. I'm also the representative on the Construction Sector Council new home building and renovation labour market information