I think it's difficult, in the sense that if there aren't positions for apprentices, maybe that says something about whether the demand is really there for the occupation. If this is an important occupation, then you would expect the positions to be there. There's a bit of a challenge in terms of subsidizing people to work in the tasks they're then doing, because if there's no real work for them to do that's related to their trade, they're not getting the training they need.
On December 4th, 2012. See this statement in context.