Appendix 2: Participants' Priorities

Participant Priorities: $5 Allocation Exercise
Topic Challenge Red Blue Green Total Challenges Total Topic
$ Voices $ Voices $ Voices $ Voices $ Voices
1 Older Workers: included notion of succession planning for Blue and Green groups
2 Economic Development: renamed to "Economic and Human Resource Development" by Red group
3 Workplace training and lifelong learning: included notion of school to work transition for Blue group
4 R&D: included in "Education and training" topic by Green group
Our workforce Youth $7.00 5 $4.00 4 $21.50 9 $32.50 18 $77.50 51
Immigrants $2.00 2 $1.00 1 $4.00 3 $7.00 6
Unemployed/ Underemployed $4.00 4 $1.00 1 $8.50 9 $13.50 14
Older workers1 $3.00 1 $19.50 10 $2.00 2 $24.50 13
Economic (and HR) Development2 Job creation $7.00 5 $3.00 3 $5.00 5 $15.00 12 $27.50 24
Productivity $1.00 1 $1.00 1 $2.00 2 $4.00 4
Innovation $1.00 1 $1.00 1 $6.50 6 $8.50 8
Education and training B/L/G/E
coordination
$1.00 1 $0.50 1 $1.50 2 $72.50 43
Workplace training and lifelong learning3 $18.00 9 $17.00 10 $20.50 11 $55.50 30
Trades and technologies $4.00 3 $5.00 4 $9.00 7
Other Research and Development4 $6.504 44 $6.50 44 $25.50 21
LMI EI/Proactive $1.00 1 $1.00 1
Strategy (FT/seasonal) $6.00 3 $7.50 6 $13.50 9
SMB/Entrepreneurship Supports $7.00 5 $7.00 5
Change attitudes/ awareness $2.00 2 $2.00 2
Wages/work situations $2.00 2 $2.00 2
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