Status of Women committee  Well, the first thing we would say is adopt the pay equity task force recommendations from 2004. They are good recommendations. They will benefit women from coast to coast to coast. When some of us in the room were younger activists—that would be me—things were going to be diffe

Status of Women committee  We've been promoting for a long time.... As anybody who has been around Parliament will know, we've been promoting that the unemployment insurance system should be changed so there is a common access for the number of hours, which would be 360 hours for people to access it. That

Status of Women committee  Actually, a lot of work has been done by our affiliates, particularly in the construction trades, that do a lot of the training. In terms of outreach to young girls and women, generally, who are going into retraining, that kind of work is being done as well. There's certainly th

Status of Women committee  They've done actual work of bringing women in.

Status of Women committee  I think the ones that have done some significant work in particular in the area of the skilled trades would be the construction trade unions, because, again, they're the ones that are most heavily engaged in apprenticeship programs in terms of the work that's done. The Ontario F

Status of Women committee  No. The Canadian Labour Congress, along with the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, did a...what the benefits are of employing women in the trades for employers, for unions, and also for women specifically.

Status of Women committee  I wouldn't say in terms of apprenticeship programs it's only about the construction industry, because certainly there are apprentices who move back and forth between the industrial sector, the public sector, and the construction industry. As we pointed out, there are programs th

Status of Women committee  It's more than half.

Status of Women committee  Thank you on behalf of the 3.2 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress. As you know, our organization represents Canada's national and international unions, along with provincial and territorial federations of labour and 130 district labour councils. Our members work in v

Public Safety committee  Okay, I'll just point out a couple of things. First off, the database is consulted over 17,000 times a day by police across the country. We know that, and it can't be dismissed. The proposal to throw out the data will absolutely put the lives of people at risk, not just in the

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. On behalf of the 3.2 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress, we want to thank you for this opportunity to be here. As you know from our previous appearances, we represent Canada's national and international unions and provincial and territorial fede

Status of Women committee  You would encourage us to leave early is what you're saying.

Status of Women committee  I think we need to be really clear here. We're not talking about equal pay for equal work anymore. That was, quite frankly, a fight of our mothers and our grandmothers, because there was a time when women doing the same jobs were paid differently. Some of us maybe weren't in the

Status of Women committee  Can I just add one point? If people really want to do something about the debt owed to women, we should get rid of the equitable compensation act and quickly start the process of implementing the pay equity task force, because that's what's going to bring equality to women's work

Status of Women committee  I'll capitulate to going PSECA.