It means embracing the classic notion of apprenticeship to help make education and training as efficient and as relevant as possible. One more word on apprenticeships. We need to focus on creating a new generation of skilled craftspeople to replace the generation that is retiring. This is not a new problem.
I was writing papers about it in the early 1970s, and it still hasn’t been resolved. Existing shortages in some skilled trades are likely to worsen, particularly in those trades where Canada used to rely on imported skills to meet domestic demand.