Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks for your help with this piece as well.
I'm going to assume that we sometimes lose older apprentices out of apprenticeships because when they go back to school, there is an interruption in income because of late cheques with EI. We know that in 2004 the target to turn around an EI cheque was 21 days and that was being hit 80% of the time. Now the standard has been extended to 28 days and that's only being hit 30% of the time. Those are Service Canada stats. That must have an impact on people who are taking apprenticeships. That has to have an impact.
Would you think that is part of the reason there is such attrition with those older apprentices? Could I have your comments on that?