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Key recommendations include:

1. Enhance the capacity of Canada’s innovation intermediaries to boost performance within small- and medium-sized companies by investing $331 million over five years in the College and Community Innovation Program
2. Renew support for experiential learning by making the Student Work Placement Program permanent and expanding eligibility to include post-secondary institutions and international students
3. Strengthen awareness of and navigation to lifelong learning by ensuring Canadians have relevant labour market information and guidance to available training
4. Invest in the research and learning infrastructure designed to develop a future ready workforce. Ensure all new infrastructure programs can be accessed by post-secondary institutions to make their campuses more sustainable, accessible and better equipped with the tools and technologies used by employers

Key recommendations include:

1. Enhance the capacity of Canada’s innovation intermediaries to boost performance within small- and
   medium-sized companies by investing $331 million over five years in the College and Community
   Innovation Program
2. Renew support for experiential learning by making the Student Work Placement Program permanent
   and expanding eligibility to include post-secondary institutions and international students
3. Strengthen awareness of and navigation to lifelong learning by ensuring Canadians have relevant labour
   market information on skills in demand, flexible financial supports to pursue training and guidance to
   available courses
4. Relaunch a post-secondary infrastructure program that enables investments in green infrastructure,
   new technology and systems designed to develop a future-ready workforce

Key recommendations include:

1. Activate applied research to enable business innovation
2. Increase access, navigation and support for lifelong learning
3. Make investments in post-secondary infrastructure a part of Canada’s long-term growth and development plan
4. Support a robust and inclusive economic recovery