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From YouTube: NOVEMBER 4 2021 Statements Andrew Mercier
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
2nd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Member
for
langley-
thank
you,
mr
speaker,
and
it's
an
honor
to
rise
in
this
house
and
on
behalf
of
the
minister
for
advanced
education
and
skills
training,
as
well
as
myself
to
recognize
apprenticeship
recognition
month.
We
have
37
000,
registered
apprentices
with
the
industry,
training
authority
in
british
columbia,
mr
speaker,
and
we
graduate
six
thousand
and
one
hundred
of
them
into
journey
people
every
year.
But
that
is
not
enough.
We
have
a
real
skilled
trades
crisis
in
this
province.
A
Mr
speaker,
we're
going
to
need
70
we're
going
to
have
73
000
job
openings
in
less
than
the
next
10
years
in
the
skilled,
trades
and
well.
That
is
in
many
ways
a
real
crisis.
It's
also
an
opportunity
for
enterprising
young
people
to
get
into
a
profession
where
they
can
work
with
their
hands,
gain
some
skills
and
see
the
productive
value
of
what
they
do
every
day,
and
there
is
so
much
work
in
bc.
A
Right
now,
mr
speaker,
going
into
the
skilled
trades,
can
take
you
across
this
province
and
across
this
country,
from
site
c
and
lng
canada
in
the
north
to
the
patello
bridge,
skytrain,
the
broadway
corridor
and
many
other
projects
across
the
province.
There
is
so
much
opportunity
to
build
a
life
in
the
skilled
trades
and
we
need
to
be
encouraging
our
young
people
in
this
province
to
get
involved
in
the
skilled
trades,
and
so
one
of
the
things
that
I've
done.
Mr
speaker
in
my
community
of
langley,
is
set
aside.
A
My
favorite
here,
my
oppressment
from
brookswood
secondary
school
who's,
going
to
be
going
into
hair
styling,
which
I
hear
is
in
high
demand,
at
least
in
my
household
and
chris
mcewan,
from
vanguard,
secondary
who's,
going
to
be
going
into
doing
electrical
work
and
all
three
of
them
were
part
of
youth
train
and
trades.
The
ita
program
at
school
district
35..
So
can
we
give
a
big
hand
for
the
37
000
apprentices
in
this
province
and
the
work
that
they
do.