Thank you all for being here today and for your presentation. I'm going to try to knit this together.
Regarding the comments about making sure that young people are aware of trades and the potential opportunities by pursuing trades, we're seeing growth in the numbers. For young people who registered between 2006 and 2010, there's fairly substantive growth. There were about 320,000 individuals in 2006 to 430,000 in 2010. That would show there's growth in people becoming more aware of the trades. But still the completion ratios of those trades aren't as strong as they should be or as anybody would want them to be. About 20,000 individuals completed their apprenticeship in 2006 and 36,000 individuals completed it in 2010. Your reference was that about 50% complete their apprenticeship. I would question if it's that high. There has to be a myriad of reasons. As you said, it's very complex. When you look at provincial responsibilities it's very complex.
Who is measuring why these young people aren't completing the trades? Where do we go to find those measurements and the myriad of reasons they're not being completed?