Job training appears to be one of the most contentious issues on the table as Canada’s premiers meet today in Niagara-on-the-Lake for their semi-annual get-together. At stake is a possible jurisdictional battle with Ottawa that could go on for months and threatens to cloud the issue even more.
Several provincial leaders have already vowed to fight the $900-million Canada Job Grant plan announced without consultation in the March federal budget, upset both at Ottawa’s move into a provincial domain and the added cost of the program to their own coffers.
At the same time, Dan Kelly, president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses, a group whose members are largely overlooked by the plan, says he hopes these provinces set their initial reactions aside and try to come up with ways to make the proposal work.
“I think that they have to take off their parochial hats,” said Kelly, and start thinking about “how do we make sure the dollars go to training.”
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