Status of Women committee  What we see from a lot of data we've examined recently is that women do better in the public service in a handful of occupations, particularly in Alberta. Women do better in low-skilled work. For example, people who work in front-line customer service or as clerks, people who wor

Status of Women committee  Sure. I'm happy to talk about that program as are many Canadians I think these days.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. We have seen, particularly in Alberta, an explosion of the use of the temporary foreign worker program in low-skilled occupations. This is not simply in the food service sector, although we do see it there. We see that the majority of those workers in Alberta who are

Status of Women committee  I was getting there.

Status of Women committee  The impact on Canadian wages is that prevailing wage rates, which we've obtained through access to information from ESDC, have stagnated for the lower-wage occupations in Alberta. That is the impact. For women who are working in low-skilled occupations, their wages have essentia

Status of Women committee  First of all, I think we need to do more than advertise to women, if we want women to work in non-traditional fields. It has historically been the approach of the provincial government, as you know. There is a lot of overlapping jurisdiction in this area of training, and so on. I

Status of Women committee  I can give you some insight into apprenticeship numbers in Alberta, and what we've seen in terms of the results of the various public policy initiatives. We have not seen a large growth in the number of women receiving Red Seal or other certifications in the building trades. What

Status of Women committee  There are two things I would say. Alberta does have a very low percentage of GDP spent on public services, that's both services that women access in order to achieve equality outcomes, but it's also where we find women working. So there's that part. The second part of this is th

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair, and hello to the committee. Thank you for accommodating me via video conference. My name is Shannon Phillips. I'm the policy analyst for the Alberta Federation of Labour. I live in southern Alberta, in Lethbridge, and I am in Edmonton today. I am o