I think the federal government has done quite a bit in recent years on apprenticeships. It created the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum, which you will probably be having a representative from. They were under the sector council program, so I'm not quite sure of their future.
Of course, the Red Seal program is very important, and that's for mobility across provinces. There are a very large number of apprentices who take the Red Seal exam.
In terms of basically having an employer not lay off an apprentice when there's a downturn, well, I guess the best thing would be to try to minimize the downturns through appropriate fiscal and monetary policy. I guess you could have some work-sharing types of agreements. We already have that in Canada. There are programs so that employers can keep their employees or their apprentices during the downturn. Maybe they should be expanded.
As I pointed out earlier, though, luckily, the last two recessions we've had in Canada have been a lot shallower than the large recession we had in the early 1980s and early 1990s, so that's been a very positive development. That explains why there hasn't been as much of a downturn in the apprenticeship registrations.