[Advisors] YI Delays

Tue Jun 2 06:49:48 PDT 2015

Hello,
For our part, the impacts of the changes, that we’re still trying to understand the meaning, appear majors.

We understand that the internships should provide opportunities to develop ICT skills and to allow non-profit organizations, offering internships in promising fields, to benefit from those skills.

We are not sure to understand Industry Canada's definition of ICT and their link with internships in aerospace and video games NPOs. In fact, we don't find a lot of high-tech NPOs. We continue to look around for those because we’re asked to do so again and again. We also question the relevance of this type of internships that have more to do with the private sector, that already pays for those and don’t represent de facto a particular challenge for the employability of young people involved in these professions. No doubt they lack of manpower in these areas, but would those internships really make a difference?

Our two major difficulties are therefore to understand the program since Industry Canada's proposal and job description is the same as before. Yet again, it seems clear to us that the internships in the CAP sites were very powerful for young interns regarding their appropriation of the ICTs and also to help communities to use them for economic and community development based on "Connect Canada". They had an opportunity to develop certain XXI century's skills, which are the most sought after by companies across all skills.

The other challenge regards the administrative changes. In our practice, the 8% given to administrative costs (10% before benefits) was already a financial deficit that we accept to fill since we implemented a facilitating operational system regarding the bureaucratic procedures, which is no longer accepted.

Also, the organizations (NPOs) must be autonomous in their management (which suggests that we'll have to do a lot of administrative reviews and more to get all the administrative documentation in time, so more administration and not less), and no internship for the provincial coordination.

In addition, we need to spend a lot of the administrative budget in the hiring of a full-time coordinator, which we want for years to the extent that we would have a three-year agreement or renewed in March to avoid breaks, which we can't afford with uncertain agreements signature or months later. Confirming the refusal to pay the time that our team put.

So we are a little puzzled. 

Monique

Le 2015-06-02 à 09:23, Bev Collins a écrit :

> June is when they deliberate over the proposals that came in. It's changed so much that anyone who used to deliver to CAP Sites are probably in trouble this year. 
> 
> I sent them the CBC story that was done on lapsed funding, and the reporter said it was because of delays in getting the project started. We are already behind, this program is supposed to start April 1. If they decide in June and provide a CA in June we will still be into July and probably August for hiring. 
> 
> The ones that do or will get CA's this year will be expected to do more with less. It reminds me of what we said 5 or 6 years ago, that they won't kill the program they will just starve it.  Well now they aren't starving  it necessarily... but over complicating it by micromanaging. Now even the 10% that was provided to organizations to use to manage the program is being managed by industry Canada. 
> 
> Bev
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jun 1, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Dana Perry <awvcscor at valleylibrary.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Marita...we have been able to tap into the YI program here in Nova  
>> Scotia...as for details etc I am unable to accurately report on  
>> that...perhaps Karen Parusel can speak to that.  We are going ahead  
>> and hiring CAP youth for the summer and into the Fall/Winter in  
>> support of the Nova Scotia Community Access Program...:)
>> 
>> Dana
>> 
>> 
>> Quoting Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net>:
>> 
>>> Thanks Clarice.  I know you folks in Manitoba use this program as  
>>> does Vancouver Comm. Net and the networks Bev. works with under  
>>> PCNA.  Who else out there is affected?
>>> 
>>> Marita
>>> 
>>>> On 6/1/2015 8:28 PM, cleader at mb.e-association.ca wrote:
>>>> No not cancelled, but trying their best to force us to withdraw of  
>>>> our own volition. Don't think anyone has yet. I just resent them  
>>>> our major successes ( which the previous administration had)  and  
>>>> ‎some history of the program.
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>>> *From: *Marita Moll
>>>> *Sent: *Monday, June 1, 2015 7:24 PM
>>>> *To: *cleader at mb.e-association.ca
>>>> *Cc: *Bev Collins; 'TC Advisors'
>>>> *Subject: *Re: [Advisors] YI Delays
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hello all.  So has the program been cancelled completely, or reduced?
>>>> 
>>>> Marita
>>>> 
>>>>> On 5/11/2015 10:12 AM, cleader at mb.e-association.ca wrote:
>>>>> Thanks Bev, sounds consistent with his way of thinking. ‎Too bad  
>>>>> they cannot see the long term benefits of the program.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
>>>>> *From: *Bev Collins
>>>>> *Sent: *Sunday, May 10, 2015 7:01 PM
>>>>> *To: *'TC Advisors'
>>>>> *Subject: *[Advisors] YI Delays
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I see some reasons behind the delays now…
>>>>> I was told last week by our Industry Canada officer that it was  
>>>>> Treasury board that “was not keen on the YI program as they  
>>>>> associate it with the CAP program that ended in 2012 and question  
>>>>> why this program has not also ended.”   The delays are with  
>>>>> Treasury Board – last year it was very late.
>>>>> If you all remember in 2010 it was then Industry Canada Minister  
>>>>> Tony Clement that cancelled cap then quickly reinstated it when  
>>>>> caught in a media scrum – how embarrassing was that.   Now he’s  
>>>>> Treasury Board chair.
>>>>> Bev
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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