I just want to say that the issue of women in trades needs to be seen in a bigger context of women in the science, technology, engineering, and math professions. It is a very practical issue. There's a whole society-wide cultural shift that has to happen. You heard from Skills Canada. You heard from Canadian Apprenticeship Forum. To have that kind of changing perception and get younger girls to want to try this, you have to talk to the secondary school systems and the school boards. You can't just look at the colleges to solve that problem. Colleges are facing the issue, just as universities are, of increasing the number of women in hard disciplines.
On December 6th, 2012. See this statement in context.