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MP MARY Collins flew into her Capitano consti-
tuency Tuesday bearing close to $300,000 worth
of good news for area residents.

Clearing the path for her try projects for the area,

return were announcements $100,465 for a Bowen Island
of $188,643 for two job en- job development program,

and $4,504 for a West Van-
couver New Horizons Pro-

Collins said

that the overall philosophy
behind the $4 billion Cana-
dian Job Strategy program
announced in June, 1985, of
which the job entry pro-
grams are a part, was to
stimulate the private sector's

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ability to employ rather than
merely initiate temporary
government make-work pro-
jects.

WOMEN BENEFIT

Sixty people, two thirds of
which are women, will
benefit directly from the
governnient approval of two
North Shore job entry pro-
jects.

North Shore Continuing
Education will reccive
$118,169 to. provide 30
weeks of classroom and on-
the-job training for 20
women, four natives, six
visible minorities and two
disabled.

A further $70,474 will be
used to provide 20 women
with the skills needed to help

them re-enter the work .

force,

The job re-entry program,
which provides 15 weeks in
the classroom and 15 weeks
on the job, is exclusively for
women who have been out
of the work force for a
number of years as mothers
or homemakers, Collins
said.

YOUTH TRAINING

The North Shore job entry
program, she said, was aim-
ed specifically at unem-
ployed area youth between
18 and 24 years of age and
specifically at providing
them with both training and
job experience.

“The largest single group
of unemployed Canadians
remains young people. The
North Shore is no different.
And the idea behind both
entry and re-entry programs
is to provide on-the-job ex-
perience with training.”

She added that job pro-
grams in the past have tend-
ed to focus separately on
either training or temporary
employment rather than a
combination, and were
therefore short-term and in-
effective.

UNEMPLOYED

The North Shore job entry
program will provide 13
weeks of classroom and 17
weeks of on-the-job training.

According to federal gov-
ernment figures released in
mid-December, 16 per cent
of Canada’s youth were un-
employed. The national
unemployment average to
the end of November, 1985
was 10.2 per cent; in the
metropolitan Vancouver
area the rate is 13.7 per cent.

Approximately $15.9 mil-
lion have been allotted to the
B.C. and Yukon region
under the 1985-86 job entry
program. The re-entry pro-
gram accounts for. 20 per
cent of that total.

CONSERVATIVE MP
MARY COLLINS

Both the entry and re-
entry job programs will pro-
vide employers with the op-
portunity to assess program
participants as prospective
employees, she said.

FISHERY JOBS

The $100,465 allotted to
Bowen Island under the
government’s job develop-
ment program will provide
nine full-time fishery-related
jobs for 23 weeks to help
develop a stable Bowen
Island salmon population
through habitat restoration
and construction of fish in-
cubation facilities in the
island’s watershed.

Collins also announced a
federal government con-
tribution of $4,504 for a
senior citizens’ music thera-
py program at the West
Vancouver Care Centre.

In addition to the job
program allocations, Collins
said she, along with North
Vancouver-Burnaby MP
Chuck Cook, will establish a
North Shore unemployment
advisory council.