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Building and construction trades , engineering and mechanical trades and electrical trades had the most apprentices in 2005 with 6 000 , 5 800 and 5 400 apprentices respectively . Saturday work is most common for employees in retail trade . This is not so surprising since this has to do with the policy of high taxation on alcoholic beverages . The number of employees in wholesale trade and commision trade decreased by 4.1 per cent from the 4t h quarter 1999 to the 4t h quarter 2000 for the country as a whole . I 'm a new member to the committee , so I was n't here last year when you appeared , but it 's my understanding that back then , that obviously it 's a fair statement to say that contrary to some of these statements last year at the committee hearing , that Firestone and Ford ca n't seem to agree on what the root causes of the tire problem is . Inconvenient hours are still most common in the hotel and restaurant industry , as well as in transport , health and social services and retail trade . In manufacturing the direct costs were 79.4 per cent of the total labour costs , in construction 80.4 per cent of the total , and in wholesale and retail trade the direct costs were 80.7 per cent of the total labour costs . Big Music continues to pursue its bloody-minded " sue ' em all ! Non-western immigrants were overrepresented within industries such as hotel and restaurants and industrial cleaning , while the western immigrants had higher shares of employees within industry groups such as extraction of crude petroleum , computer activities and research as opposed to the whole working population . In hotels and restaurants there was a decrease of 1.5 per cent , while retail trade had an increase of 2.5 per cent . Almost one of three passed vocational examinations in health and social studies , and one out of four in engineering and mechanical trades . Today , as we've already seen , the committee is going to be battered with competing data and competing analyses , research and statistics , charts and graphs , experts and opinions , all striving to settle the disagreements surrounding our decision to replace 13 million tires on Ford vehicles . According to preliminary figures from the national accounts for third quarter 2006 , the statistics cover approximately 345 200 employees in wholesale and retail trade .