Training businesses in Quebec :bresearch report

Overview of the paper This paper will explore the Quebec context, the training businesses that exist in Quebec, the enabling environment that has supported their development and provide an overview of the current state of affairs for training businesses. [...] The Chantier has played and continues to play an important role in formalizing the social economy, in solidifying government recognition of the social economy and in developing public policy in favour of the social economy. [...] Established in the early 1980s, training businesses had more than a decade of operating experience to draw on when they participated in the Conference on the Social and Economic Future of Quebec (1996) and the Summit on the Economy and Employment (1996). [...] Using ingenuity and innovation, those at the heart of the training businesses cobbled together short term funding from a variety of sources to finance their work and develop the training programs that would address the needs of people in their communities. [...] That is, the government blamed the lack of work on the individual’s lack of training, instead of blaming the lack of work on the poor economy.