I often say that smart people need to build buildings. That is a pretty point-blank statement there.
To your point about how we've always had these apprenticeship programs, we have apprenticeship registration programs, and we have individuals entering this industry. However, bringing it back to the retention and advancement piece, that's where we're lacking. We can have recruitment all we want, but if we are not going to protect that investment by investing in the retention and advancement of these individuals, we are going to consistently keep seeing this revolving door where we are losing money.
I have a couple of stats here to speak about this. Only 30% of women who begin apprenticeship programs complete them, in comparison to 45% of men. Also, 45% of men do not complete an apprenticeship program. This is not just speaking about under-represented groups; this is speaking about all apprentices all across the board. Again, to that point, when we talk about skilled trades, people are interested and people are excited to go into the skilled trades. I was excited to go into the skilled trades. Growing up in Windsor, I drove down Riverside Drive where all the nice houses were, and I knew that all of those houses belonged to tradespeople, so it was an idealized career for me, but once I got into it, it was not the shiny glamour that I had originally been promised.