M-492 Apprenticeships

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) recognize that apprenticeships provide access to a career for unemployed youth, create trained workers for industry, and generate benefits for the economy as a whole; (b) act immediately to develop a policy, including clear mechanisms, timelines and targets, that promotes the use of apprentices in federal infrastructure projects by adopting a request-for-proposals scoring system for the procurement of infrastructure contracts which provides incentives to companies who utilize apprentices; and (c) explore using successful programs such as Central Ontario Building Trades Hammer Heads Program as a model.