Usually what happens is you go on what they call “block release”. No offence to the Bloc. You do your six months of on-the-job training. The good thing about our apprentices is they get paid while they're working, and then they have block release, where an employer will release 10 or 15 of them all at once to go to the classroom portion of their session. So generally as an apprentice you don't have the freedom to go and take courses when you want. It's up to your employer, and I'm not blaming them. My friends at SNC-Lavalin will get upset with me. But at the end of the day, you go on block release whenever the employer tells you. You go and do your training then.
On October 29th, 2009. See this statement in context.