Is this going to be a taxpayer funded program/bonus for liberal business friends?

yes

…”B.C. residents, including Aboriginals”…? Normally one would expect to have aboriginal people to be considered residents on this province. The mindset out there is to make people think otherwise when it comes to thinking who is a resident and who is not? Subliminal divisional thinking? Might work for some people.

Really, the article is about BC resident employment and you focus is apartheid?

I understand what Harbinger is saying….most people don’t give it a second thought….but the Government and the media seem to be hell bent on perpetuating the notion that we’re a nation divided…..

Thanks, Mercenary.

If the ITA is handling any part of this it will be a disaster.There are apprentices that have been waiting to write their exam levels, and the ITA does not have an exam available for them, and cannot tell them when there will be one!It is beyond frustrating to even phone their “customer service”, as 5 different people will give you 5 different answers.The whole process is in the sewer and needs to be fixed at the ITA level before BC will have any sort of apprenticeship program.

I agree with fuceneh’s conclusion. The article also referred to a release of the final results of the ITA review. Does anyone have access to that report yet?

Fuceneh makes a good point. The BC liberals dismantled the apprenticeship program first thing when they came to power (said it was to costly for employers). They wrecked an apprenticeship program that worked and jeopardized the red seal certificate for those that came after… now they wonder why we have such problems in the BC apprenticeship program….

If (and its a big if) they go ahead with building a LNG exporting facility in either Kitimat or Prince Rupert, they certainly will not be tied to waiting for BC residents, or aboriginals to complete their training.

I sincerely doubt at this point that they even know what type of trades they need.

The Japanese don’t believe that BC has the necessary trained people to build an LNG plant, and they are suggesting that perhaps they should be built with Japanese labour. Considering that they will be one of the biggest customers for LNG they will have some say in who builds the plants.

The ships to transport the LNG cost approx. $200 Million per ship, and I suspect that they will be built in Korea.

The announcement does not indicate a cash infusion to jump start these announcements…..rather its a cash reduction to various current post secondary programs.Also, there is no cash infusions to high school programs to complement this new direction etc….so its no change there. Notice the election style photo-op on the legislature laen today. This is a smoke and mirrors response to the current CD Howe report that Christy Clark’s wooing of temporary foreign workers to BC has increased unemployment approx. 3% and created high unemployment with our youth. Unless there is a strong,organized financial cash infusion with a clear direction…..this is just more Lieberal bs.

See Switzerland’s apprentice programs and copy it. Corporations are very much involved in the practicums and apprentice renumerations.

May not be obvious on the surface of it, but it’s also a plan to make sure that only the well-healed with be able to afford academic learning for their children, leading to 2-tiered education and the inevitable class system that will eventually emerge.

As for an LNG plant it could be built offshore and towed in as done in Australia. Fiberals got the ferries built elsewhere so the precedent is set. Get around the skills training and cost of Labour.

Check here anotherside
http://www.jtst.gov.bc.ca/ITA_Review/

I know it was just a typo but it sure seems to fit:
“The pan is called “B.C.’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint”
Probably more ‘panning’ than planning going into it.

At the same time they announce the skills blue print the CTC program at CNC is in looking like it is over. CTC is funded by SD 57 and they say they don’t have any money for the program. So on one hand the government is saying more more more in reality the trades programs that give high kids a kick start into trades is going the way of the dodo bird! Trades instructors at CNC have already received their layoff slips! Imagine that!!!

What makes govt think that taxpayers want to fund training for future oil and gas corporations at the same time they are not supplying the lube for what they are doing to us at the pumps?

*for future employees of oil and gas corps*