The MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly) Committee on Lifelong Learning held consultations at more than 14 rural and urban locations throughout Alberta to gather stakeholders' and community members' views on the need for lifelong learning and ways of promoting it. Participants were asked to identify strategies to encourage and enable adults to return to learning and thereby improve their employment potential and realize their career goals, as well as to share information on learning activities and needs in their communities. More than 400 individuals participated in the consultations. Their suggestions fell primarily into the following categories: (1) ensure that students in the basic learning system are successful in their learning; (2) increase opportunities for adult learning; (3) strengthen community-based learning; (4) provide special supports for literacy, English-as-a-second-language, and other special needs programs; (5) develop a directory of learning programs and supports available to Albertans; (6) develop better cooperation and collaboration among learning providers; (7) encourage greater employer support for lifelong learning; (8) improve standards and certification to improve facilitation of lifelong learning; (9) fund lifelong learning; and (10) promote lifelong learning. The concerns raised during the individual meetings varied, depending on whether the meeting was in a rural or urban location and participants' knowledge of lifelong learning. (MN)