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NHL Playoff Games: Canada Jobs Grant

Canada Jobs Grant: Prime-time ads began airing this week during NHL playoff games currently the priciest advertising real estate on the dial that tout a new federal Canada Jobs Grant for training workers, according to The Star. Peter Van Loan, the Conservative government House leader, described the Canada Jobs Grant last week as a proposal that needs to be fleshed out and developed fully and OTTAWA The Harper government is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars advertising a program that does not yet exist. The trouble is, the freshly announced program is at present little more than a concept that has yet to be negotiated with provincial governments, and requires buy-in from employers as well. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.