Canadian 2010 Budget

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You can download the Canadian 2010 Budget - Here

The EcoEnergy rebate program will expire March 31, 2011.  Now is a great time for homeowners to take advantage of the rebates and avoid the 8% tax increase, which takes affect July 1st, 2010, when the HST is implemented in the province of Ontario.

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This year it has been finalized that the Gas Tech will be an apprenticeship program. I am the last to go through as of the old format. I do hope the new format will bring some financial aid for future students as a regular apprenticeship does. ( current red seal plumber). As for some comments I have read I do agree there are some that have a ticket and fumble the ball more than they should. I also found the instructors in my plumbing usually asked the country bumbkins for answers to some questions over city plumbers that were working on sky scrapers. The issues was experience. In the industry city centers end up with companies that specialize, out in small towns you end up getting your fingers wet in a vaster array of the trade. You can either learn from someone else's mistakes and help them out or you can point a finger  at someones deficiencies. Part of a classrooms dynamics is a mix of experience that you can either gain from or pass by untapped! I do agree that not all tradesmen make good teachers, but perhaps the student s sometimes need to figure out a way to get the most for the cost of the course, figure out how to gain the most info either from fellow students or the teacher, or both! I will be finished my G2 in June 2012 and I look back at costs travel and course is high because my area to next closest is North Bay. I reside in Kenora and I know from my plumbing apprenticeship it helped in travel costs to Sioux St Marie, then final year George Brown in Toronto. Seeing as it is  about 18 hr drive from Kenora Ontario to North Bay ( my closest G2) and all costs including course is out of my pocket I have hope future gas tech will not have to pay as much being under an apprenticeship program. Google maps will prove the travel time for those speculative of my claim, yes Ontario is big and Winnipeg Mb is 2 hrs away from me! but a B ticket is not accepted in Ontario) I have also found that in the gas trade and plumbing trade as well as others there are some that talk the talk but stumble when they walk! If you think what you had in books is a waste of time then think rather that it is a review of what you already know. But if you think you know everything you will miss out because you will not allow yourself to learn anything past your current knowledge base, that means  a few years from now you may be the person that stumbles because you did not keep learning! technology is evolving and reinventing itself, it is up to us to keep abreast of changes or let it pass us by. It is easy to be critical of others, not so easy to be critical of ourselves.