The apprenticeship completion grant has been a great success. As I referred to in my opening comments, the apprenticeship incentive grant is where students are eligible for $1,000 in each of the first two years if they're in a Red Seal designated training program.
What we found was that too many were not completing their education. We needed to do that for their sake, because when you're looking at future mobility, their ability to work wherever they choose in the country, and to have their skill sets recognized, it's important to get their journeyperson's ticket. We brought in the completion grant. That was first launched last July, and already we have over 20,000 students who have received that apprenticeship completion grant.
So far, over 140,000 have benefited from the incentive grant. We hope that these incentives, along with the spotlight that we're putting on the need for people to go into skilled trades--such as hosting the world skills competition last year, which I had the great honour to do with the Prime Minister--really let young people, and indeed people of all ages, know what great career opportunities there are and what a good living can be made by going into the skilled trades.