Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act (S.C. 2005, c. 34)

Marginal note:Powers, duties and functions

• 5. (1) The Minister’s powers, duties and functions extend to and include all matters relating to human resources and skills development in Canada or the social development of Canada over which Parliament has jurisdiction and which are not by law assigned to any other Minister, department, board or agency of the Government of Canada.

• Marginal note:Exercise of powers

  (2) The Minister shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions

  • (a) relating to human resources and skills development with a view to improving the standard of living and quality of life of all Canadians by promoting a highly skilled and mobile workforce and an efficient and inclusive labour market; and

  • (b) relating to social development with a view to promoting social well-being and income security.

Marginal note:Powers

6. In exercising the powers and performing the duties and functions assigned to the Minister under this or any other Act, the Minister may

• (a) subject to the Statistics Act, collect, analyse, interpret, publish and distribute information relating to human resources and skills development or to social development; and

• (b) cooperate with provincial authorities with a view to coordinating efforts for human resources and skills development or for social development.

Marginal note:Programs

7. The Minister may, in exercising the powers and performing the duties and functions assigned by this Act, establish and implement programs designed to support projects or other activities that contribute to the development of the human resources of Canada and the skills of Canadians, or that contribute to the social development of Canada, and the Minister may make grants and contributions in support of the programs.

8. [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 687]

Marginal note:Committees

• 9. (1) The Minister may establish advisory and other committees and provide for their membership, duties, functions and operation.

• Marginal note:Remuneration

  (2) Members of a committee shall be paid, in connection with their work for the committee, the remuneration that may be fixed by the Governor in Council.

• Marginal note:Travel, living and other expenses

  (3) Members of a committee are entitled to be reimbursed, in accordance with Treasury Board directives, for the travel, living and other expenses incurred in connection with their work for the committee while absent, in the case of full-time members, from their ordinary place of work or, in the case of part-time members, from their ordinary place of residence.