Yes, and I would echo beyond that. The federal budget attempted to identify problem areas and propose apprenticeships, but it did it in a weird way. Instead of offering grants to students, it offered loans directly to the students themselves and that was very unfortunate because it reinforces the debt sentence that students are graduating with and prevents them from gaining the training they need, because they don't want to take on additional debt.
On April 1st, 2014. See this statement in context.