Important Community Announcement: LMDC Funding

Important Community Announcement

Listuguj: October 28, 2016:

The LMDC wishes to inform the community that all available employment and training funds have been committed for this fiscal year.

Clients who are currently participating in an employment or training measure are not affected. All payments will be processed according to the signed agreements. The LMDC will continue to take new applications, to be processed should more funds become available by the Government of Canada.

The LMDC will continue to provide Career and Employment Counseling Services to all community members. As well, Support Services will continue for all existing Clients.

The LMDC will communicate with Emploi-Québec for the procedure to refer Clients to the Centre locale d’emploi (CLE), for funding applications. Once authorization is received, the community will be notified.

For more information contact Jennifer L. Metallic at 418-788-1347

Background

The Government of Canada, through the signing of Human Resources Development agreements with Aboriginal People, have been contributing at the same level of funding since 1996. No considerations have been made for increases in population, training costs, minimum wage, operations expenses, etc.