I can simply give you a sense of what we heard from our members, particularly small and medium-sized companies. They really take on a huge burden with the investment they have to make when they need to train apprentices. It's not like that in other businesses, where you have a fully trained employee coming to you. There is that general burden that is also affected by the business cycle. If business dips off, their capacity to take on apprentices is going to be affected as well. When they have to see an apprentice go away for that in-class training, that technical training portion and leave them for six weeks, they've lost an individual from among their small workforce. That is another difficulty.
There is also the reality when they have trained apprentices who complete their apprenticeship and get their certification, those individuals then become more mobile in the workforce. There is the issue of losing a fully certified employee after you've invested in their training. The challenge is often very much in making that commitment, the financial burden that falls to the small and medium-sized businesses when they do take on apprentices. It is different, perhaps, in Europe where they have quite a different relationship, shall we say, between the employer, the labour sector, and so forth.