SEPTEMBER 2026
RE: THE NATIONAL TRAINING FINDER, READINESS MEASUREMENT AND VERIFIABLE COMPLETION
Dear Mr. Côté,
Thank you for making the time. This follows the Minister’s letter of 14 July to the Council of Canadian Innovators, in which she asked officials responsible for the Training Finder to be in touch. We are one of the CCI member companies behind that correspondence.
We are We Know Training Inc., a Canadian company based in Edmonton, Alberta. We operate the infrastructure that delivers regulated training and issues roughly 450,000 credentials a year across hundreds of branded storefronts running under various institutional partners — under a SOC 2 Type II certified operation. The majority of the training delivered through our technology is training an authority has made mandatory before a person can legally work: i.e. working at heights for construction workers, life insurance licensing for financial advisors, cannabis retail worker training for budtenders, real estate licensing for realtors, etc.
The Training Finder exists to connect a Canadian to the training a specific job requires. Restricting the platform to free programmes and post-secondary providers leaves out access to categories of training providers that are creating some of the most innovative solutions that can help address many of the objectives the Training Finder seeks to solve.
We are not asking for an open door. A directory anyone can list in would cost the Training Finder more trust than it gained reach. At minimum we recommend that a provider should be eligible when a body with real authority has already recognised the credential they issue — a regulator, a certifying body, an accrediting association. Not because they are private, and not because they asked.
We’ve also built two unique instruments of innovation that are currently in production today and that we feel strongly can help address workforce skill gaps and labour mobility challenges.
ReadyEngine™ measures whether a learner is actually ready to pass a certifying exam or be ready to work against a published standard — continuously, while they learn, instead of once at the end. It takes a published exam blueprint and turns it into a live measure of how ready a person is right now, and precisely what is missing. In a regulator-accredited licensing programme it moved the pass rate from 81 to 96 per cent within two permitted attempts, and cut time to complete by 48 per cent. It has crossed four regulated domains without a change to the algorithm. Those results come from Alberta real-estate licensing. The mapping and expansion is underway for the trades next, and then other priority skill shortage sectors afterwards.
The connection to your platform is direct. A worker arriving at the Training Finder has to already know what to search for. That is a real constraint on a discovery tool, and it is the constraint workers name themselves: when Ipsos surveyed 511 Alberta tradespeople for the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum this year, an online resource to compare their skills against what a Red Seal trade requires was the highest-rated support tested, at 77 per cent.
Oliu® and the Canadian Credential Trust Alliance (CCTA) answer what happens after training. A pan-Canadian trust network that lets a certificate prove itself outside the province that issued it. Through Oliu and the Canadian Credential Trust Alliance, a completion is issued as a tamper-evident credential the worker holds on their own device and any employer can verify in seconds, on the W3C Verifiable Credentials standard. The issuing body remains the authority and keeps the power to revoke.
We are not asking for money, a procurement, or preferential listing. We are making a narrower point: the platform’s own purpose is better served by a floor that lets accredited innovators in than by a category that keeps them out. We would also like your read on where these two instruments are genuinely useful to the Training Finder and ESDC, and how we can further bring this type of innovation to Canadians.
The Minister’s letter invited ideas. If a written submission would be useful, let’s discuss and we’re happy to provide further details.
Five recommendations, starting with a concession.
The Minister’s reply invited ideas. These are ours. The first one is a concession, and the aim throughout is a floor that lets accredited innovation in rather than a category that keeps it out.
Where this work meets the federal mandate.
Drawn from Job Bank’s own published mandate and from federal workforce direction.
The programs create entry, support and capacity. ReadyEngine can add a common certification-readiness signal across the journey.
Additional resources
The instrument that proves a worker is ready, before the exam, not after. The evidence, the mechanism, and five levers toward 100,000 workers.
A pan-Canadian trust network for verifiable digital credentials, instant to verify, impossible to quietly fake, portable across provinces.
We Know Training Inc.: six brands, three customer personas, and one engine underneath, how it all fits together.