Ottawa Provides First Nations Funding Toward Resource Sector Jobs
Terrace, B.C. – The federal government is providing funding to First Nations In British Columbia to help aboriginal people to become pipefitters and welders and electricians.
Minister of Employment and Social Development and Minister for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney has announced federal government support to help Aboriginal people in B.C. get the skills they need to land jobs in the resource sector. The government will provide over $6.1 million to the Pacific Trail Pipelines Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership Training Society to train 780 Aboriginal people in British Columbia.
The Training Society will partner with the private sector to help Aboriginal people gain skills for occupations in demand in the energy sector, including welders, electricians and pipefitters. Kenney notes how the energy sector is building ambitious projects, many of which are literally in the backyards of Aboriginal communities. He says this represents a tremendous opportunity for Canada's Aboriginal people and helps address skills shortages in British Columbia.
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Why is this not for all Canadians ? We all have the same access to public education. We can all decide to pursue a trade .. Why do my two nephews who have done very well in school have to jump through so many hoops to even get a pre-apprentice ?
The most qualified should get the apprenticeships, not the ones who are of the right race.
Like they say, you can lead a horse to the water but can’t make it drink.
I think they have more opportunities than most of us. Their sense of entitlement will always hold them back. If we all worked together and were viewed as equals I think things wood change for the better.
Would.. Oops
Still waiting for the announcement of millions of dollars to help Ukrainians get apprenticeships .
Think my family will be waiting for a very very very very very long time..
Can’t believe canada allows and pays for legal racism
Well there goes my breakfast…the commentors on this site made my stomach turn.
http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/explaining-white-privilege-to-a-broke-white-person-shesaid/
Curmudgeon.. Please explain by funding just one race, in a country that is hurting for tradespeople , is okay?
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Curmudgeonscurse are you trying to say “it doesn’t matter what your ethnicity is you have to work hard. You have to fight to make something of yourself.”? That’s what I got out of your link
Race based skill funding. Race based fisheries. Race based justice. Lotsa room left on the list. I await.
As long as the gov’t continues to segregate aboriginals from non-aboriginals at every opportunity, nothing will change. The sure way to fan racism is to make one race stand out from the other, either good or bad. There would be hell to be paid if there was a program to train ONLY non aboriginals in trades. I don’t care what anyone says, this is wrong on so many fronts.
I have no problem with the concept of teaching people how to make money rather than just handing out money.
I think we all have seen many such programs. I have even been involved with some over the decades as a provider of such services.
What I have not seen is success stories. I know some personal ones, but one does not see any/a few articles of community interest in the media.
The USA is much better than that than Canada is.
I would like to see some info on the overall success and why the ones which were successful did work and why does which were not did not succeed. I have my personal views from my experiences, but they are biased. I want to see an objective report to the government of how well such programs work and why this one will work as well.
Any on here that can point me in the right direction?
The affirmative action debate ….
one of many sites….
http://debatewise.org/debates/2524-positive-discrimination-affirmative-action
Are you forgetting that there are trades and apprenticeship subsidies available virtually everyone? Or is it too convenient to ignore that facts?
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/goc/apprenticeship/index.shtml
With so many positions available in Northern BC’s resource sector, the concept of ‘job stealing’ is totally laughable.
I’d also be curious to know how many of the commenters above are actually in the job market? Are you currently seeking employment or trainning in the trades sector and finding you are hitting barriers, or are you just whining about something you have no intimate knowledge of?
Curmudgeon. I am a trades person and know exactly what I am talking about. We and ever other place are screaming for trades. If this funding was open to everyone..not just one Race. Then it would definite help this shortfall. You need to have the educational background to make it in any trade. That shows a desire……
I am in fact currently enrolled in an apprenticeship program. And yes it is a struggle to support my wife and new born. Yes I am aware they have subsidies available for everyone. Do I think it’s fair that aboriginals get “more funding” absolutely NOT. We should all have the same opportunities and funding. Instead why don’t they invest that money into the schools so the tuition can be cheaper for all!!!!
If this funding was open to everybody, the labour pool for the most profitable industry in BC would be completely government subisidized. How’s that for free-market economics?
Carpenter, you are right about funding for schools. CNC sees their budget cut every year.
Food for thought in the ‘equality’ debate:
http://drummondblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Equality-doesnt-mean-Equity.jpg
Equal treatment only works if everyone starts from the same place.
At least if you have a trade you know what kind of job your out of.
We all start at the same place.. We are all born to this world.
Pacific Trail Pipelines Aboriginal Skills and Employment Partnership Training Society to train 780 Aboriginal people in British Columbia.
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$6.1 million for 780 ? That is pretty generous, I’ll bet our local aboriginal training agencies don’t get anywhere near that type of funding. PGNAETA????
I personally know a number of natives who do well for themselves and never had any handouts.
P Val ..”We all start at the same place.. We are all born to this world.”
That is a bunch of BS.
I know of a whole bunch of people born in Ethiopia who discovered they were born in the wrong place. A few of them were even born with defective bodies.
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Hey, seamut, we must know the same six people.
Gus…get a life bud.. We are all born to this world..it is the same place.. Then again..you may have been born somewhere else because it seems you are still trying to get a grip on the reality here on earth.
“We must know the same six people”.
Nice insinuation Gus, that there are only six natives who have not received handouts. Ignorant beyond all means.
Jim13135 is on to something! There seems to be some politics in play here! While the federal government seems to be interested in increasing trades training and employment opportunities to First Nations in BC, however Big Oil & Gas government knows First Nations have potential veto power over pipeline right-of-ways through their traditional territories. An olive branch being extended perhaps?
As for First Nations receiving “preferred treatment”, in the context of 50% to 60% unemployment rates on some reserves, and given that the United Nations has described living conditions on most reserves in Canada as being in “Third World” conditions, I am all for sharing some of the opportunities and wealth with them.
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