Mr. Speaker, we have looked to the experience of Germany, which has a great trades tradition. They are very good at apprenticeships. We enrol 124,000 Canadians a year; we only graduate 24,000. We know it is not working. We want to fix it. We are looking to Germany, which graduates about 400,000 a year. We know that they have the tradition. We are looking at revamping the whole image of trades and suiting it to modern needs. We are doing that and we intend to get the help of the hon. member who asked the question.
In the House of Commons on January 31st, 1994. See this statement in context.