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  "retrieved": "2026-10-15T23:30:18Z",
  "source": "Assay Systems register, https://assay-systems.com/register/",
  "access_notice": "On 15 November 2026, automated access to assay-systems.com closes. After that date, access is available only under a paid annual subscription contract. Contact: contact@assay-systems.com",
  "data": {
    "id": "ASY-CA-0R8JCBT06M",
    "type": "grant",
    "country": "ca",
    "name": "Wood Manufacturing Council: federal grants and contributions",
    "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/wood-manufacturing-council/",
    "summary": "12 federal grant and contribution agreements worth $6.9M with Wood Manufacturing Council, 2007–2017.",
    "figures": [
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        "value": 12,
        "unit": "count"
      },
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        "value": 6900000,
        "unit": "money",
        "currency": "CAD",
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        "display": "$6.9M"
      },
      {
        "label": "departments",
        "value": 1,
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        "label": "programs",
        "value": 5,
        "unit": "count"
      }
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    "text": [
      "The objectives of this project are to provide core funding. This will enable the Wood Manufacturing Council to maintain a role as a national leader in strategically addressing complex human resource issues in the advanced wood processing sector.",
      "Provides funding to develop nationally focussed partnerships comprised of key stakeholders within an industrial sector to increase consensus and understanding of labour market issues.",
      "Through the Sector Council Program, the Government of Canada is working with the private sector to enhance adult workers' skills through activities such as increasing employer investments in skills development and promoting workplace learning and training.",
      "To develop a foreign qualification assessment tool to assess the soft and technical skills of foreign-trained workers.",
      "The Sectoral Youth Career Focus Program is a national initiative between the Government of Canada and sector councils and cross-sectoral organizations. Sector councils are well positioned to develop projects that assist youth in finding quality employment.",
      "Provides post-secondary graduates with career-related work opportunities to help them acquire advanced skills.",
      "Develop fair, accessible, coherent, transparent and rigorous foreign credential assessment and recognition processes to enhance the labour market outcomes of foreign-trained individuals",
      "Develop fair, accessible, coherent, transparent and rigorous foreign credential assessment and recognition processes to enhance the labour market outcomes of foreign-trained individuals.",
      "Provides funding to develop nationally focussed partnerships comprised of key stakeholders within an industrial sector to increase consensus and understanding of labour market issues.",
      "The Youth Employment Strategy is the Government of Canada's commitment to help young people, particularly those facing barriers to employment, get the information and gain the skills, work experience and abilities they need to make a successful transition to the workplace."
    ],
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      {
        "name": "grants and contributions register",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Employment and Social Development Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/employment-and-social-development-canada/"
      }
    ],
    "assay_record": "ASY-CA-0R8JCBT06M",
    "cite_as": "Assay Systems, \"Wood Manufacturing Council: federal grants and contributions\", https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/wood-manufacturing-council/"
  }
}