The first is that in the voluntary certification trades, you don't have to actually complete to be one. You have to have the licence to be a plumber or an electrician, so people complete.
Second, trades aren't sexy. Third, people can't find jobs and don't know where the jobs are. The guy who has basic and intermediate carpentry in Ontario goes to Alberta, and somebody says that he has to start at the bottom. He says, “Hey, kiss my...pal”, and does something else. We have lost the sunk cost in him.
We need to mobilize training, make training move, and rip down the interprovincial barriers.