Quebec is a province where there are pools of employees. And so, before a plumber can have access to an apprenticeship, the pool has to be open to new requests. The situation is slightly different from that in the rest of Canada. It is always both a provincial and a federal matter.
From the federal side, what can you do? I think that employment insurance benefits should be distributed more rapidly to these people. As for investments, tax credits help employers. That said, the issue is to know how many people we can attract to a given sector, and how many we can keep there.
Promotion is also an issue. In schools, we ask the students to tell us what apprenticeships they want. They tell us that they want to become doctors, lawyers or work in some other white collar occupation.
Once we attract them to a given field, how can we retain them? That is what is difficult. Employment insurance is helpful. Tax credits are helpful. However, it would seem that a cultural change is needed.