The Canadian Apprenticeship Forum – Forum canadien sur l’apprentissage (CAF-FCA) is comprised of representatives from:
CAF-FCA promotes apprenticeship as an effective training and education system that contributes to the development of a skilled labour force, and provides a mechanism for key stakeholders to support apprenticeship-delivery systems across Canada.
The CAF-FCA Board of Directors notes that, while a substantial amount of research and analysis on barriers to industry training and apprenticeship has taken place in the past two decades, a comprehensive research project on this topic has not been carried out. To address the absence of meaningful study on these barriers, the CAF-FCA contracted the Canadian Labour and Business Centre (CLBC) to research issues relating to barriers to apprenticeship and communicate the results of this study with key stakeholders.
The objectives of the study were to:
The findings identified within this report are presented to engage the apprenticeship community and stimulate discussion about perceptions regarding accessibility and barriers to apprenticeship in Canada. The findings do not reflect the views and opinions of CAF-FCA; rather, they reflect the perceptions of barriers as captured by the pan-Canadian research.
Readers should bear in mind two important considerations related to the interpretation of the perceptions contained in the report’s findings. First, the report often draws generalized conclusions or observations based on a broad, nationwide overview of issues and practices. However, in some jurisdictions, specific circumstances may vary from the generalized observations presented in the report.