Thank you.
To build on the points by my colleagues about women being underrepresented in the trades, it's very linked to apprenticeship as well. Right now only 14% of apprentices are women. It drops to four per cent when you exclude hairstyling and others. It's four per cent in construction and trades. They're extremely underrepresented. This is not just entering women entering apprenticeships, but also completing them. As Mr. Blakely pointed out, completion rates are extremely low. We're about 56% in Canada. This compares to about 79% in France, 80% in Germany, 79% in Switzerland. So comparatively, we need to increase apprenticeship completion rates.
As our colleagues at Canadians for Tax Fairness pointed out, for women this has a lot to do with universal child care, and equal pay provisions for part-time and temporary work as well, then linking back to our previous comments about the CPP's drop-out provisions, and making sure that women aren't penalized on these various levels.