In September 1985, the Canadian government introduced the Canadian Jobs Strategy. Two features distinguish the jobs strategy program from Canada's old job development programs and programs for purchasing job training from colleges. These features are: (1) focusing of federal support for labor market adjustment on those individuals who are most in need of help; and (2) emphasizing decision making at the local level so as to support those activities that work best to meet the needs at hand. Under the Canadian Jobs Strategy, programs make use of a wide variety of approaches aimed at the different labor market, general economic, and technological conditions in different parts of the country. Services provided under the auspices of the jobs strategy program include job development, on-the-job training, small business development and supportive services to entrepreneurs, counseling and work experience programs for entry-level workers, and special training programs for occupations faced with labor shortages and for workers threatened by technological or labor market changes. Results of the 1986-1987 surveys of program outcomes are most encouraging. Since its inception, the program has served over three-fourths of a million persons, with 65 percent of those in the job entry and 60 percent of the women enrolled in the re-entry programs completing them successfully. (MN)