We need to try to steer clear of incentives. It needs to be sustainable for reasons other than that they're getting a couple of hundred dollars extra. Part of it is the whole notion that it needs to be apprenticed in the traditional sense. Workers can gain the skills in other ways in a process where there is mentoring and where there is leadership from somebody experienced in the industry. Part of the issue is that to go through an apprenticeship program, you have to work under people who already have their journeyman's card. There aren't that many people around--certainly in our industry there aren't.
Part of the aspect too is that sometimes as a home builder I get phone calls from people in my neighbourhood saying they have a son or a daughter who's thinking of finishing school and they'd like to give this a try, but I can't hire them directly. I hire subcontractors, subtrades to do that work. So there's that incohesiveness we have to address as well.
The whole process whereby people are mentored and trained has to be changed somewhat from the traditional apprenticeship system.