The federal government has finally reached an agreement on its new job-training program, after months of feuding with the provinces. It鈥檚 feuding that would never have happened but for the Harper government鈥檚 penchant for acting first and talking later.
The sa国际传媒 Job Grant was created last year without input from the provinces; it takes effect on April 1 this year. It would provide $15,000 for job training for workers, with the two levels of government and the employer each providing one-third of the money.
To pay for the untested program, the provinces would have to give up $300 million of the money they get from Ottawa for their existing training programs. The provinces, with sa国际传媒 Premier Christy Clark among the leaders, have fought back since the details became public.
After months of refusing to budge, the federal government has finally made some concessions that ease the provinces鈥� concerns. sa国际传媒 will be able to keep its programs for vulnerable people such as First Nations. The provinces also won鈥檛 be forced to chip in their share of the $300 million from money that is used to help those who have the most difficulty finding jobs.
sa国际传媒 will probably have to cut some programs to find its share of the money, so monitoring the effectiveness of the new scheme has to be part of the decision-making.
sa国际传媒 has a federal system that works efficiently only when the federal and provincial governments talk to each other before 鈥� not after 鈥� they make policy.
