Did TFIP initiative participants have success in entering the ACOA and CED-Q job creation programs?
The extent to which TFIP initiative participants were successful in entering the ACOA and CED-Q job creation programs can be verified using both administrative and survey data. CED-Q administrative data indicates that 51.0% (105 of 206) of TFIP initiative participants ended up taking part in the CED-Q job creation program.3 However, survey results shown in Exhibit 3.5 indicate that very few of the 2,702 TFIP initiative participants took part in the short-term job creation programs. The discrepancy is, in some cases, due to respondents being unaware that CED-Q was the agency responsible for the administration of the short-term job creation program that they were participating in. Another possible reason for the discrepancy is that respondents may not have even known that they were in a short-term job creation program. Similarly, the low participation rates in Newfoundland may have resulted from survey respondents not knowing that ACOA was the agency behind the short-term job creation pr
