Status of Women committee  Tom and I are going to arm-wrestle over this, but I won the first pass.

Status of Women committee  I think what you're pointing out is that we need to be able to create the atmosphere where, for example, we're encouraging young women to go into non-traditional work. I sit on the board of the Canadian Apprenticeship Forum. A few years ago, we did a study for equality-seeking gr

Status of Women committee  I see we got him--

Status of Women committee  It could be the whole range. Some of us have been dealing with this for, again, too many years. I remember that many years ago when I was president of the government employees union, we dealt with similar issues in a provincial government department, where we sat down with that

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. There's a lot of stuff that can be applied in both places. There are some things that are particular to non-traditional workforces, but there are more similarities in workplaces than there are differences.

Status of Women committee  We're in early discussions with the longshore union, obviously. We have our Pacific region staff working with the union. As well, once we have hired a new director for our women and human rights department, that person will obviously be engaged. But I want to say that there is a

Status of Women committee  Can I just add to that very quickly because I've been very quiet?

Status of Women committee  Just on the question of women in politics, part of the work that the CLC can do with women who are in the longshore is to work with them on the questions of community activism, political activism, and activism within their union.

Status of Women committee  How do you get elected and how do you end up taking office? That's part of our work.

Status of Women committee  I know how to get back in on this with questions.

Human Resources committee  I feel sometimes in this room...it's a little bit like the last discussions we had when we came to talk about the previous bill's extension of benefits. There are some people who are going to benefit from this kind of a move, and we obviously don't want to stand in the way of tha

Human Resources committee  I just want to expand it. Certainly in terms of ACTRA, CAW, and ourselves, what we've really been talking about is fairness in access and opportunity and benefit payments and levels. I think there's some consistency, although there are obviously some differences. I'm going to g

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm pleased to be here in front of the committee again on behalf of the 3.2 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress, workers in virtually every occupation in communities all across this country. The CLC has long supported the provision of specia

Human Resources committee  In terms of costing, there's $57 billion that was taken from workers and their employers.

Human Resources committee  I realize that, but that's the answer.