Here we see the clear links between learning, innovation and research, all framed within a
discourse of skills and human capital theory. The mission-level document, the Workplace
Skills Strategy Backgrounder, outlines the goals of the WSS program:
The Government has developed the Workplace Skills Strategy (WSS) to build a
labour market that is flexible and efficient; to help Canadians be the best trained,
most highly skilled workers in the world; and to respond to the needs of employers to
make Canadian workplaces more productive and innovative. To advance these
objectives, the Workplace Skills Strategy focuses on three priority areas for action: