National Adult Literacy Database

Rising and changing skills requirements in the economy, the constant pace of technological change and demographic pressures pose major challenges for the Canadian workforce. The National Roundtable on the Adult Labour Force (September 16, 2002; Montreal) was one in a series of consultations where HRDC asked key labour market players to provide views and advice on the diagnostic and milestones which were set out in Knowledge Matters: Skills and Learning for Canadians, and on how these milestones might best be achieved.