Canadian
Labour Force
Development Board

La Commission
canadienne de mise en
valeur de la main-d'œuvre

A Draft Guide for Sector Councils
to Develop Working Relationships with
Provincial Governments
For Discussion

September 4, 1996
prepared by

Philémon Paquette
Sector Councils’ Secretariat
CLFDB

Draft: August 29, 1996

23-66 Slater, Ottawa, Ontario KIP 5H1 (613) 230-6264 Fax: (613) 230-7681

Background
Given that the federal government is transferring responsibility for labour market
training to the provincial governments and currently negotiating the terms of that
transfer of responsibility and resources it is in the interests of the existing federally
facilitated Sector Councils to establish working relationships with each of the
provinces.

Possible Courses of Action
1.

For those Sector Councils which have formal representation by an organization
in a province, the task is to ensure that the provincial organization accurately
promotes its connection to the federally facilitated Council, and the merits of
using the occupational standard, curricula and trainings developed by the Sector
Council on the grounds of efficiency and pan-Canadian acceptance by industry
of these standards.
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2.

For those Sector Councils which do not have formal representation by an
organization in a province, it is suggested that it establishes links with an
organization (perhaps one representing some other Sector Council) to carry out
the responsibilities in “1” above.

3.

All Sector Councils should, through a business or labour member of their Board
in that province, contact the Minister in each province responsible for
negotiating the transfer of the labour market development responsibilities from
Human Resource Development Canada to that province, to advise the Minister
of the occupational standards, curriculum development, and training activities
of the Sector Council with some indication of the breadth and depth of
acceptance of those standards, etc, by industry and labour. This communication
should include the offer to work with the Minister’s staff to ensure that
provincial concerns will be addressed by the Sector Council in consultation with
other provinces that Sector is active in to ensure a pan-Canadian solution which
reflects local concerns and issues.

4.

All Sector Councils should contact the provincial Labour Force Development
Board in those provinces where one exists to inform them of the presence of the
Scector Council in their province, the plans of the Sector Council, if any, in

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their province and of the products and services available from the Sector
Council. Currently there are Labour Force Development Boards in New
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia (see attached list
for names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers).
5.

Use the CLFDB impact analysis of the changes by participating in the Labour
Market Partners Forum and stay informed about what is happening in the
negotiation of federal-provincial agreements.

Attached you will find:
1.

a list of Ministers in each province responsible for negotiations with
Human Resource Development Canada (to follow)

2.

a list of current Provincial Labour Force Development Boards

3.

a report prepared for the New Brunswick Labour Force Development
Board on Sector Councils in that province. This report highlights the
concerns of a province, and the basis for provinces to consider setting up
their own sector councils if the current federally facilitated Sector
Councils cannot or will not serve a province.

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(revisedAUG. 19/96)

LIST OF EXISTING PROVINCIAL
LABOUR FORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS

New Brunswick Labour Force Development Board
191 Prospect Street, 2nd Floor
Fredericton, New Brunswick
E3B 2T7
Tel:
(506) 457-1277

Fax:

(506) 459-1544

Mr. Maurice Clavette, Labour Co-chair
Mr. Bill Dixon, Business Co-chair
Mr. Pat Flanagan, Executive Director

Nova Scotia Labour Force Development Board
99 Wyse Road
Suite 350
Dartmouth, N.S.
B3A 1L9
Tel:
(902) 464-4997

Mr. Greg Blanchard, Labour Co-chair
Mr. Cliff Dahms, Business Co-chair
Mr. Tom MacDonald, Executive Director

Fax:

(902) 463-0159

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Saskatchewan Labour Force Development Board
#202 -2222 13th Avenue
Regina, Saskatchewan
S4P 3M7
Tel:
(306) 352-5999

Fax:

(306) 757-7880

Ms. Barbara Byers, Labour Co-chair
Mr.Ross Kennedy, Business Co-chair
Ms. Janis Stone, Executive Director

British Columbia Labour Force Development Board
Suite 221
560 Johnson
Victoria, British Columbia
V8V 1X4
Tel:
(604) 356-5360

Ms. Marian Meagher, Labour Co-chair
Mr. Stu Noble, Business Co-chair
Mr. Lee Doney, Chief Executive Officer

Fax:

(604) 356-9444