JULY 2019 – CANADA
The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDPP) and Skills Norway held the 9th International Symposium on career development and public policy in June 2019. The theme was ‘Leading career development services into an uncertain future: Ensuring access, integration and innovation’.
The Symposium brought together policy makers, career development professional, researchers and employer and workplace representatives to discuss the way forwards for global career development. It focused on exploring how the world in which individuals are pursuing their careers is changing and how people across the world can get support to develop their careers. It also looked at how governments organise career development support and connect them to wider policy aims and to other support services. Finally, it explored the future of career development and examined ways the field could be more innovative.
All attending countries were asked to produce a country paper setting out the key issues for their countries in relation to the key themes of the conference. Team Canada wrote a country paper highlighting our country’s specific features and innovative practices in the field of career development.
During the Symposium representatives from 33 countries and from UNESCO, the OECD, European Commission, European Training Foundation and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, dialogued and identified a range of effective policies and practices. These discussions are summarised in the ICCDPP 2019 Communiqué.
For more information, please visit the ICCDPP Symposium Website.
Cannexus is presented by CERIC and supported by The Counselling Foundation of Canada with a broad network of supporting organizations. For more information and to register, visit www.cannexus.ca.
NOVEMBER 2016 – CANADA
On June 3rd, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance launched its pre-budget consultation process and invited the participation of Canadians. The focus of written submissions to the Committee and appearances in fall 2016 should be the following:
What federal measures would help Canadians generally – and such specific groups as the unemployed, Indigenous peoples, those with a disability and seniors – maximize, in the manner of their choosing, their contributions to the country’s economic growth?
What federal actions would assist Canada’s businesses – in all regions and sectors – meet their expansion, innovation and prosperity goals, and thereby contribute to economic growth in the country?
What federal measures would ensure that urban, rural and remote communities throughout Canada enable residents to make their desired contribution to the country’s economic growth and businesses to expand, prosper and serve domestic and international customers in order to contribute to growth?
CCCBET took advantage of this opportunity to voice some of our concerns regarding employment.
A report on the consultations will be tabled in the House of Commons in December 2016.
JUNE 2016 – CANADA
Federal, provincial and territorial Ministers reinforced their commitment to collaborate on key opportunities and challenges facing the Canadian workforce and agreed to work together to conduct broad-based consultations on the annual $3 billion investment in labour market transfer agreements to ensure they are responsive to the needs of Canadians. Ministers made the announcement on June 28 after a videoconference meeting of the Forum of Labour Market Ministers (FLMM), where they also approved next steps for the creation of the Labour Market Information Council.
Consultations will take place over the summer months to gather perspectives from a broad range of stakeholders to look at ways to improve the transfer agreements and inform future investments. This work will help support provincial and territorial employment and training programs that address labour market needs in a fast-changing economy. These consultations will be held across Canada, online and through written submissions with a wide range of experts, stakeholders and individual Canadians. Information regarding these consultations will be posted on the FLMM website.
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