I think there are many cultures where apprenticeship has been a proven way to learn, from the time that it meant learning to hunt and live off the land. Years ago in Alberta, we put more than 400 aboriginal people to work in a program funded by the provincial and federal governments. It was the Alberta apprenticeship program. It is no longer in existence. I remember there was a video done by an elder whose name was Gilbert.
Gilbert told a story about becoming an elder and how it took 15 years. He told of his journey, but he related the story to being an apprentice. I remember making a deal with the Alberta folks. They said they'd take some federal money to produce this video, but that it had to be shared across Canada. You don't need 50 videos. This demonstrates how we can take a project the federal government can support and share it across the country.
Next year, our organization, our social enterprise, will be 15 years old. We keep repeating the same projects across this country and calling them something different. We don't really do good knowledge transfer. We have interprovincial problems with labour. We can't even move wine, let alone people, across our borders.