Human Resources committee  The registered apprenticeship information system tracks each apprentice and gives you, at the beginning of the year, whether this is a new registration or a continuing registration. Then at the end of the year it tells you if this is somebody who has completed, dropped out, or is

Human Resources committee  I think it's difficult, in the sense that if there aren't positions for apprentices, maybe that says something about whether the demand is really there for the occupation. If this is an important occupation, then you would expect the positions to be there. There's a bit of a chal

Human Resources committee  Exactly.

Human Resources committee  There are ways. You can subsidize the wage, but again, whether or not that's something you want to do is I think a question. People will always hire more workers if they're cheaper.

Human Resources committee  I think there is a survey among apprentices that does exactly that. I think Rick Mueller did a study that looked at completions using that survey, which I think also gives apprentices the option to say why they dropped out. Survey evidence can be informative, but of course the r

Human Resources committee  No. I agree with Andrew on the Red Seal.

Human Resources committee  To be fair, I was focusing on completion rates. The different structure didn't seem to matter as much as I thought it would have a priori, so if there are good reasons for that regional variation, it doesn't seem there's too much cost in terms of completions. Certainly, my result

Human Resources committee  One of the things that I think people have argued that would maybe be useful is going to the high schools. Some of the people argue that apprentices are maybe not an attractive option to the kids. They talk about high school guidance counsellors who have all been to university, a

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I'm going to look at something that's much more specific. I'm interested in seeing if I can explain some of the variation in completion rates across provinces and trades over a period of around about 15 years. The problem is motivated by a fair bit of media attentio