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2009

APPRENTICESHIP: Fact Sheets (download PDF)

Apprentissage: Feuillets d’infos (download PDF)

Apprenticeship & Trades: Bill 183 submission, September 2009 (download PDF) (read online)
We are concerned that the structures envisioned by Bill 183 as drafted will be top-heavy and top-down; unaccountable; lacking a sufficient degree of expertise in the skilled trades; immediately mired in jurisdictional disputes; and bogged down in bureaucracy.

2008

Compulsory Certification Review (download PDF)
OFL Submission to Tim Armstrong, Advisor
Ministry of Training, Colleges & Universities
January, 2008

2006

Apprenticeship, Executive Summary (download PDF) (read online)
Summary of OFL Submission to the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities -May 2006

Apprenticeship (download PDF) (read online)
OFL Submission to the Minister of Training. Colleges and Universities - May 2006

2005

Supporting a Great Tradition: Apprenticeship (download PDF) (read online)
November, 2005

2003

Training and Apprenticeship (download PDF)
People's Charter work group recommendations on Education