Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for your presentations.
Mr. Blakely, apprenticeships are important to me. I've toured different trades in terms of their training facilities, and that's all well and good, but then they really can't complete their licences until they have that on-the-job experience.
I appreciate your comments about the federal government showing leadership and leading by example, but what are you hearing from employers in the trades? What incentives do they need to actually start hiring? It's one thing for them to see the government acting in a certain way, but I suspect they would want more than that, because if it were really about doing the right thing and bringing up the next generation, I'm sure many of them would do it, knowing their own experiences.