Thank you.
I would suggest a few things as top of the mark. One would be UTIP. I'm glad to hear the announcement of reinforcing UTIP with $75 million of injected funding to maintain it for what it's meant to be.
Public colleges already receive funding through various chains. There's never been funding at this scale of a similar nature for unions, which have really formed the true structure for trades training in Canada. Maintain it for what it is. Keep us at the forefront of UTIP, the union training and innovation program. Reinstate apprenticeship grants. We need this. It's been held across the board. All trades are asking for this. Track pre-apprentices who participate in pre-entry programs that are funded federally or provincially in the same way we track apprentices, so we can actually analyze outcomes and reward funding accordingly to those programs, or remove funding accordingly in the future.
Finally, regulate and align microcredentials with the trades. If it has an impact on an existing trade in state make it compulsory that there's a prerequisite that you are either a registered apprentice or a journeyperson, or you're displacing people from the trades.