Discussion · Orders of the Day
Carlos Leitão Liberal
“Youth unemployment is a serious problem around the world and here in Canada. Young people struggle to find jobs, and their skills do not always match what employers need. We need to keep talking about this and fix that problem.”
“Mr. Speaker, my colleague had a lot of very interesting ideas. I am not a member of that committee, so I did not follow its work, but clearly some good ideas have come from that work. Youth unemployment is indeed a very serious problem, and not just in Canada. We just have to listen to the news on TVs or on our computers these days to see that it is worldwide. Canada has special circumstances in that we live in a very large and very diverse country, and young people are having great difficulty entering the labour force. In that respect, it is upon us to continue talking about that as much and as often as we can and to try to correct the skills mismatch—”
Official Hansard
Mr. Speaker, my colleague had a lot of very interesting ideas. I am not a member of that committee, so I did not follow its work, but clearly some good ideas have come from that work. Youth unemployment is indeed a very serious problem, and not just in Canada. We just have to listen to the news on TVs or on our computers these days to see that it is worldwide. Canada has special circumstances in that we live in a very large and very diverse country, and young people are having great difficulty entering the labour force. In that respect, it is upon us to continue talking about that as much and as often as we can and to try to correct the skills mismatch—