Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I understand there's wage subsidies, but I more or less want to point toward or lean towards more of a human resource support network, I guess, out there that a lot of private businesses, a lot of local boards and agencies, LHOs for instance, would love to take on apprentices. They can scrape up dollars, Human Resources, Education, Culture and Employment. But just putting together the forms and the filing every month, the reporting that's required even for the Department of Education, Human Resources Canada, workers' compensation. There's a whole list of reporting requirements for an apprentice, and getting them into school, the logistics that's all involved and stuff like that. There are no support mechanisms out there. It's just more or less you apply to us, we'll subsidize you, you do everything. A lot of private businesses, LHOs included, don't have the time or the energy to put that much effort into it and basically it just goes by the wayside. So I'm just more or less looking for more than just dollars and cents, I guess, especially on the human resource side. How can they offer some kind of a contact person or a network where they can access information and assistance to help them move apprentices through their system? Is there anything like that in the Human Resources department?
Robert Villeneuve on Committee Motion 50-15(5): Implementation Of The Third-party Accountability Framework, Carried
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