In the interim, perhaps a career in used car sales beckons.

From the Ottawa Sun:

Raising the spectre of airline terrorism, a judge has banned a Moroccan-Canadian from working in the airline industry for seven years.

But the man wasn't accused of being a terrorist, just faking a log book of his work so he could finish his airplane mechanic's apprenticeship -- a violation of Canada's Aeronautics Act...

...Ertel told court his client had been an apprentice aircraft mechanic at First Air, but got fired after a dispute with his employer. As a result, El Mahdi had only performed about 50% of the required tasks to get his licence. He then falsified a logbook.
Meloche told court the false entries came to the attention of a Transport Canada inspector who realized some of the tasks listed in the log couldn't have been performed because the aircraft listed didn't have the parts for the stated jobs.

Some background. The logbook referred to is the apprentice's personal AME task log. Assuming that he's only working fixed-wing, that gives us 50 ATA chapters of tasks in his book. Now if we assume an average of 5 tasks per chapter, at 50% complete, that leaves about 125 representative tasks. My point is this. Not only did this guy have to fake 125 tasks in his book, he also needed to forge an AME's signature that many times.
Not the kind of person you'd want maintaining your aircraft eh?