This report has benefited from information contributed by many individuals who very diligently answered our requests. What they provided helped us understand the learning systems, their strengths and deficiencies. We are especially indebted to: Dan Coupal, Carolyn Dieleman, Stephen Paquette, Don Gardener and Conrad Murphy from Alberta; Victor Glickman, Shauna Butterwick, and Charles Ungerleider from British Columbia; Hope Brewer from New Brunswick; Catherine Arseneau, Joe Brown, Anne Warrell and Joyce Pugh from Nova Scotia; Mary-Beth Wallace, Tim Douglas, Gerry Conrad, Sarah Irwin, Lynne Wallace, Jim Nielson, Rosemary Clark, Evelyn Mueller, and Robert Lowry from Ontario; Jean-Claude Bousquet, Guy Baillargeon, Marc Leduc and Nicolas Dedek from Quebec; Sandra James and Michelle Cousineau from Human Resources and Social Development Canada; Boris Palameta, Xuelin Zhang and Manon Declos from Statistics Canada. We hope to have represented and interpreted appropriately all the information they provided; we remain responsible for any errors or misinterpretations. Katherine Mortimer provided helpful research assistance. We also thank an anonymous reviewer for the thoughtful comments provided.
This report has also benefited from numerous advice and comments from Ron Saunders and Richard Brisbois at CPRN.
Trish Adams, Administrative Assistant
Richard Brisbois, Researcher
Patrice de Broucker, Senior Researcher
Heather Fulsom, Project Manager
Gisèle Lacelle, Co-ordinator, Publications and Conference Services
Karen Myers, Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
Ron Saunders, Director, Work Network