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Departments of the Government of Canada
Human Resources and Social Development Canada
Minister	Monte Solberg
Minister	Jean-Pierre Blackburn
Established	2006
Responsibilities	Human Resources Social Development Labour
Employees	23,000
Department Website

The Department of Human Resources and Social Development, also referred to as Human Resources and Social Development Canada, is the department of the Government of Canada responsible for providing Canadians with the policies, programs and skills needed for the workplace and community.

HRSDC supports employers, employees, people receiving Employment Insurance, students and those who need focused support to participate in the workplace. HRSDC also supports the needs of the homeless, of seniors (e.g. through the Canada Pension Plan), the national Canada Student Loans program and labour standards for private sector workers under federal jurisdiction.

From HRSDC's web site, its mission is to build a stronger and more competitive Canada, to support Canadians in making choices that help them live productive and rewarding lives, and to improve Canadians’ quality of life.

HRSDC's mandate is multi-faceted, as it ranges through all ages and walks of life: starting even before birth, at birth and in early childhood, through the learning years and into working life, then into retirement. The Department has some 23,000 employees, and delivers services to the public through its Service Canada component (19,000 employees), a one-stop window with about 500 points of service that either handles or gives information on a number of other government services (e.g. passports or citizenship applications).

HRSDC's stated mandate is: Improve the standard of living and quality of life of all Canadians by promoting a highly skilled and mobile labour force and an efficient and inclusive labour market.

HRSDC was created on February 6, 2006 by regrouping the former Human Resources and Skills Development Canada and Social Development Canada. Those two departments had been formed just over two years earlier, in December 2003, by splitting Human Resources Development Canada into two separate departments which, however, had continued to share many common services and operations. The 2006 version of HRSDC has not yet been followed by enabling legislation but continues to operate under previous authorities. Those were enacted in July 2005, through Bill C-23, an Act to establish the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development and Bill C-22, an Act to establish the Department of Social Development.

The Ministers responsible for the Department are:

• The Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development
• The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of Labour

• Human Resources and Social Development Canada
• Service Canada

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