Thank you very much for being here to help us understand this important issue.
My questions are in three zones. One builds on—I think it was Mr. Mayes' question—the federal role. It seems that there are different ways of tracking, and there are different counts of completion rates, and so on. Is the area of measurement an area that the federal government could potentially take a role in, stabilizing apprenticeship success and completion rates, and I guess successfully getting a job, stabilizing how that is tracked, or is that already tracked by the federal government? Is there a proper system in place to track it nationally, and if not, why not, and could that be a role for government? Were we to do that nationally, there would be more of a sense of in which trades the registration rates are low and where the completion rates are low, and there would be more comparability. I guess it's what you measure. You can improve that idea. That's one I'd like you to talk to.
Second, there has been a huge increase in women in trade apprenticeships. What accounted for that increase? What kinds of things were successful, or is there data on that? What do we need to do to have more women enter traditional trades?
Third, what are the best practices internationally? What would be three best practices that might be helpful in terms of the Canadian context that could be utilized here in Canada to make progress on the apprenticeship front?
Thank you.