About the Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy
From: Employment and Social Development Canada
The Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy is a funding program that supports skilled trades workers and employers through measures that:
- promote the skilled trades as a good career option
- help you explore, prepare for, participate, and succeed in apprenticeship
- help employers and unions participate in apprenticeship
- encourage new tools and approaches to better prepare pre-apprentices, apprentices, and journeypersons for the jobs of tomorrow
How the program works
The program provides funding to help apprentices, employers, unions, and other organizations participate in apprenticeship. Examples include:
- funding for Equipment purchases
- funding for Innovation in apprenticeship
- funding for green training
- funding for career exploration activities, skills training and work placements
- funding for organizations to support small and medium-sized employers of Red Seal apprentices
- taxable cash grants for Red Seal apprentices
- funding for organizations to support women apprentices
Learn more about skilled trades and technology careers.
Eligible equity-deserving groups
The Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy aims to support a trades workforce that is skilled, inclusive, certified and productive. A key objective is to help equity-deserving groups participate in the skilled trades, including:
- women
- Indigenous people
- newcomers
- persons with disabilities
- racialized communities
- youth
- members of 2SLGBTQI+ communities