Ontario is taking steps to establish the Ontario College of Trades, a regulatory college that would help modernize the province's apprenticeship and skilled trades system.
Legislation to be introduced today, if passed, would establish this regulatory college. Along with regulating its members, the College would encourage more people to work in the trades and help the system better serve employers, skilled tradespeople, apprentices and consumers.
The College of Trades would give industry a greater role in recruitment, governance, certification and apprenticeship training, building on the significant role skilled trades already play in Ontario's prosperity.
Establishing the College would put skilled trades on a similar footing with teachers, doctors and nurses, who have their own professional regulatory colleges, such as the Ontario College of Teachers.
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