Human Resources committee  On your point about how we get apprentices to be able to move around, the problem we have now is that every province has a different training standard. The only thing that could be done at the federal level is to have the federal government mandate that all of the provincial trai

Human Resources committee  No, they become journeymen. Again, I represent 5,800 journeymen as well.

Human Resources committee  We have 400 employers, and they always have work on the go. Our apprentices are very busy. Our journeymen are very busy taking new starts out of the Hammer Heads program. It's a great opportunity for them. Number one, they end up back in their own neighbourhoods exposing the prog

Human Resources committee  I'm the business manager in Toronto. We have 1,700 apprentices at any given time on the go. We're always taking in new apprentices. They're always working.

Human Resources committee  Yes, we do about 14 million man-hours a year.