Consultations
Consultation and engagement activities allow organizations and individuals to provide us with their input on a variety of topics. This helps us develop better, more informed and more effective policies and programs for Canadians.
Open consultations
- Planned accessibility legislation
Disability
July 2016 – Februrary 2017 - Employment Insurance Service Quality Review
Employment Insurance
May 12, 2016 – August 31, 2016 - Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda
Sustainability
June 22, 2016 – September 30, 2016
For a list of consultations from other federal departments and agencies, please visit the Government of Canada’s Consulting with Canadians website.
Closed consultations
- Flexible Work Arrangements
Workplace Standards
May 16, 2016 – June 30, 2016 - Social Finance
2015 - Panel on Employment Challenges of New Canadians
October 9, 2014 – December 1, 2014 - Discussion Paper: Regulatory proposals to enhance the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and International Mobility Program compliance framework
Temporary Foreign Workers
September 25, 2014 – October 16, 2014 - Roundtables on the Labour Market Development Agreements
April 29, 2014-October 14, 2014 - Employer Panel for Caregivers
Seniors
July 18, 2014 – October 10, 2014 - National Seniors Council
Seniors
November 6, 2013 – July 16, 2014 - Update of the National Occupational Classification (NOC)
July 30, 2013 – June 30, 2014 - Roundtables on the economy, skills gap and skills training
February 19, 2014 – February 22, 2014 - Post-Budget Roundtable
Budget
February 19, 2014 – February 19, 2014 - Stakeholder Roundtable: Business representatives and community leaders in St John’s
January 28, 2014 - Pre-Budget Roundtable
Budget
January 2014 –January 2014 - Round Table Series
Temporary Foreign Workers
May 15, 2013 – May 31, 2013 - Pre-Budget Roundtable
Budget
January 8, 2013 – January 8, 2013 - Labour Market Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities Online Consultation
Disability
September 18, 2012 – October 31, 2012 - National Seniors Council Consultations
Seniors
June, 2012 – October 15, 2012 - Skills Shortages and Employment Insurance
Employment Insurance
July 5, 2012 – July 5, 2012 - Defining Canada's Needs for a Nationally Funded Network of Adult Literacy and Essential Skills Organizations – a Consultation
Literacy and Essential Skills
February 2, 2012 – March 30, 2012 - Stakeholder Engagement: CanLearn.ca content review
Student Financial Assistance
March 15, 2012 – March 26, 2012 - Funding: Employment Assistance for older workers
Older workers - Labour Market Participation of People with Disabilities: Regional Roundtable in Burnaby, British Columbia
Disability
August 9, 2011 – August 9, 2011 - Consultation on issues and challenges faced bv seniors
Seniors
March 2, 2012 – March 2, 2012 - Consultation on issues and challenges faced bv seniors
Seniors
February 24, 2012 – February 24, 2012 - Pre-Budget Roundtable
Budget
January 2012 – February 2012 - Employment Insurance Rate-Setting Consultations
Employment Insurance
August 18, 2011 – November 30, 2011 - Elder Abuse and Financial Abuse of Seniors
Seniors
November 7, 2011 – November 24, 2011 - Consultations on a New Approach to Address Skills Shortages
Labour Market Information
September 26, 2011 – October 12, 2011 - Consultations on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Temporary Foreign Workers
October 2011 - National Seniors Council held roundtable discussions on issues facing an aging population
Seniors
October, 2010 – February, 2011
Past reports
- Report from the Employer Panel for Caregivers
Seniors
2015 - Consultation report: Survival to Success: Transforming Immigrant Outcomes
Employment challenges of new Canadians
October 9, 2014 – December 1, 2014 - Consultation report: Summary of the panel’s online consultation
Employment challenges of new Canadians
October 9, 2014 – December 1, 2014 - Retooling Labour Market Development Agreements Report
Labour Market Development Agreements
April 29, 2014-October 14, 2014 - Discussion Paper: Rgulatory proposal to enhance the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and International Mobility Program compliance framework
Temporary Foreign Workers
October 2014 - Impact Investment: The Invisible Heart of Markets (report of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce), Social Finance
September 2014 - Mobilizing Private Capital for Public Good: Priorities for Canada (report of Canada’s National Advisory Board to the Social Impact Investment Taskforce)
Social Finance
September 2014 - Survival to Success: Transforming Immigrant Outcomes
2014 - Panel on Employment Challenges of New Canadians: Summary of the Panel’s Online Consultation
2014 - Retooling Labour Market Development Agreements Report
Labour Market Development Agreements
2014 - National Seniors Council – Report on the Social Isolation of Seniors
Seniors
2013-2014 - Harnessing the Power of Social Finance: Canadians respond to the National Call for Concepts for Social Finance
Social Finance
May 2013 - Labour Market Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities: Rethinking Disability in the Private Sector
Disability
January 2013 - Older Workers At Risk of Withdrawing from the Labour Force or Becoming Unemployed: Employers' views on how to retain and attract older workers
Seniors
2013 - Summary Report: Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program – Consultations with Stakeholders
Temporary Foreign Workers
October 11, 2011 - Consultation paper: Employment Insurance Premium Rate Setting
Employment Insurance
August 18, 2011 - Report on the Labour Force Participation of Seniors and Near Seniors, and Intergenerational Relations
Seniors
2011 - Labour Market Participation of People with Disabilities: Regional Roundtable in Burnaby, British Columbia
Disability - Mobilizing Private Capital for Public Good (report of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance)
Social Finance
December 2010