Slide 12

In 2004, the Speech from the Throne announced a new Workplace Skills Strategy to help workers to continuously enhance their skills to keep pace with constantly evolving workplace requirements.

• Objectives of the Workplace Skills Strategy:
  • Ensure that the Canadian workforce is highly-skilled, adaptable and resilient;
  • Build a labour market that is flexible, efficient and productive;
  • Promote participation by helping those who face labour market barriers to find and maintain employment; and
  • Respond to the needs of our workplaces to ensure that they are safe, productive and innovative.
• HRSDC programs and activities feeding into the Workplace Skills Strategy include: Sector Council, Apprenticeship, Essential Skills, and Foreign Credential Recognition.

Recent Budget underscores the Government of Canada’s commitment to develop a highly skills workforce by proposing, for example, $125M to the Workplace Skills Strategy for the next three years.

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