Thank you very much.
Ms. Frache, I wanted to go back to your comment about skills training. You talked about just-in-time training and training that doesn't train the whole person; it trains on a very narrow skills set and often on a very temporary basis.
I have three children. When they went through the school system, it seemed as though there were two options. One option was that you could try to go to university. There, of course, the costs are skyrocketing. That would be one course of action. The other course of action was to fall into this never-never land of low-paying temporary jobs and obviously a very insecure future. Now that future also awaits some university grads, but there were those two courses of action.
What didn't seem to be offered as a course of action was encouragement to go into a trade. We know that the skilled trades are often a ticket to greater job security, better pay, and more job satisfaction, but unlike other countries, we don't seem to have a national apprenticeship program that we can help our young people get into or that can help newcomers to Canada to translate their skills into a secure livelihood for themselves and their families.
We're here from the federal government. What would your recommendation be to get Canada on the right track for a strong skills set for the skills we need for the 21st century, one that steers away from the just-in-time training you're talking about?