10. Believes that the Commission, the Member States, the industry and the trade unions should act jointly to retain and attract qualified workers, talented high-skilled scientists and managers to the steel sector, as well as young talent through apprenticeship schemes, thus ensuring a dynamic and innovative workforce; recalls the role of regional universities and industrial research institutes, whose excellence does much to create the regional preconditions for a competitive steel industry; urges the Commission and the Member States to implement immediate actions to avoid the loss of expertise and minimise the loss of jobs; calls for the improvement of planning and management of change by promoting training, upgrading skills and supporti ...[+++]ng retraining; is worried about the lack of systematic solutions to the generational change and future skills shortages, and about the loss of know-how and competences, and stresses the need to retain and develop the workforce and the skills vital for the future competitiveness of the sector; urges the Commission to promote, through the Erasmus for All and Erasmus for Entrepreneurs programmes, Sector Skills Alliances which, on the basis of data on skills requirements and their evolution, will be devoted to developing and implementing training programmes and common methods, including work-based learning; calls for steps to be taken to strengthen instruments to assist workers and promote vocational training in order to facilitate and support the redeployment of staff employed in the sector following corporate restructuring;

That might be in a professional way, but it doesn't have to be in a profession as such; it might be just the competency that they need to develop in an area.

– having regard to the Commission communication entitled 'New Skills for New Jobs - Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs' (COM(2008)0868), and the report by the Expert Group on 'New Skills for New Jobs: Action Now' of February 2010,

– having regard to the Commission communication entitled ‘New Skills for New Jobs - Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs’ (COM(2008)0868), and the report by the Expert Group on ‘New Skills for New Jobs: Action Now’ of February 2010,

– having regard to the report by the Expert Group on new skills for new jobs entitled ‘New Skills for New Jobs: Action Now’,

In that vein, this is my question: what does this party truly have to offer to Quebec, in terms of its jurisdictions?