Thank you very much for the question.
You're absolutely right. The child care benefit program would allow more women to enter the trades, to backfill the spaces that we're losing members from through attrition. Women in the trades right now make up about 6% or 7%, and it varies for regions across Canada. The percentage right now of women who are participating is very robust. We have programs to support that. Like everything else, they need support in terms of apprenticeship and skills training and skills upgrading.
That means so much in terms of getting more people into the trades and into the trades that have careers. Day care is very expensive. When I was a young construction worker in downtown Toronto, my wife and I both worked, and one of our paycheques went to day care. That was 25 years ago, and that didn't include diapers. That was a big hurdle to overcome. This program will help the construction industry and it will help Canadians in general.
I'll defer to Sean Strickland, please.