May I add one thing?
If you do your apprenticeship in Germany, your academic studies, the time you have taken to learn the theory is credited toward further academic study. So you can do your trade, you can become a journeyperson, practise, then move into post-secondary education and get a master's degree or a doctorate, and there's no repetition of your learning, which is totally not the case in Canada. So we need to fix those ladders, those access points.