The Canadian Jobs Strategy Program (CJS) was introduced by the Mulroney Government in September 1995. It represented a new approach to government involement in labour market programs and a shift in Canadian vocational training orientation from piecemeal short-term programs to longer-range training strategies and objectives. Rather than focusing on short-term expedient job creation or training solutions, the CJS Program sought to utilize government sponsored training and job experience as a springboard to permanent employment. CJS was an umbrella program that consisted of vocational training, job creation, employment counselling, labour market services and labour market planning and adjustment. In addition, the CJS Program targeted women, natives, the disabled, visible minorities, social assistance recipients, youth and other groups encountering difficult employment barriers to specific labour market needs. By focusing on job development, job entry, skills investment and skill shortages, the CJS Program attempted to use scarce federal labour market resources to reintegrate unemployed and underemployed Canadians into the labour force. The CJS Program administered fifty programs, which were overseen by the department's headquarters office as well as its regional and district offices and Canada Employment Centres Across the Country
The National Labour Market Innovations Program (NLMIP) was established under the CJS Program in 1985. NLMIP attempted to tap creative ideas and transform them into new and imaginative projects to stimulate and support Canada's labvour market. It provided financial program support for individual, groups, businesses, and other organizations for pilot projects, demonstration activities, and other short-term activities which tested new appraoches to employment issues. Innovations challenged all economic sectors to develop and submit proposals addressing nationaléregional labour market priorities.
The records in this accession consist of headquarters records in the form of departmental grey literautre, project reports, project proposals, budgets, agreements, and payments
