Thank you very much for that question.
The Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission undertook some significant research into completion rates. We found that overall for our population of apprentices in compulsory trades.... Those are trades in which you have to be either an apprentice or a journeyperson to work within that trade. Within our province there are four of those. The number of compulsory trades varies greatly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but we have four in Saskatchewan.
Our completion rate for compulsory trades is running around 74%. For other trades, the completion rate is running about 10 points lower, at around 64%. When we look at the population of aboriginal people within our apprentices, we find that overall completion rates for that population run around 10 points lower in each group. In compulsory trades, aboriginal completion would be running at around 64%, compared with 74% for the average, and in non-compulsory trades running at around 54%.