That's a great question. Just for the members of the committee who don't have all the information about an apprentice program, usually it's 80% in the field working, and then 20% in the classroom.
The community colleges are completely limited by the amount of budget money they receive from their provincial governments. So what we're doing when possible is trying to allow those folks to go back to New Brunswick to run their classroom time. The other thing we're looking at doing is having the community colleges talk to each other, so that you will have NAIT in Alberta and the community colleges in New Brunswick talking. There might be an opportunity to link up the classroom portion with NAIT. Now, we are talking about two different provincial governments and a federal government involved in this. But five years ago an apprentice couldn't take his or her hours in Ontario and then go to work in Alberta and get credit. So it's coming.
A block release means that all the apprentice welders, let's say, would be released from the work site to go back to their community college or their training centre and write their exams. What we'd like to do is to be able to administer the test in the field. So we're trying to partner with the people at the Red Seal Secretariat, who, as part of HRSDC, would facilitate this kind of thing. We're not there yet, but we're working on it. That's one of the things that some of the large locals in northern Alberta—Edmonton, for example—can try to facilitate between community colleges. It doesn't make sense to have people leave the job site when the work is available, because work for these young people is scarce as it is.