With 25 years' work experience in manufacturing in Canada, I can tell you that it's a really bad idea to take training in manufacturing in Canada. We need to provide for people to understand the reality of tomorrow.
With 25 years of experience, I've come back to Algonquin College as a recycled student to get the skills that I need for an industry that has demand and appears to be growing. There was no one out there who could easily tell me what that was. I had to find it. At 48 now, I think I'm really good at doing that, but I had to dig. Our 18- and 19-year-olds are not necessarily as capable. In my experience as president of them, they need help. We need to rethink how we do that.
Again, I think it comes down in some cases to the grade 5 level, where we can start that education with parents, and educators, and the students.