Rosemarie Falk at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

Thank you very much, Chair.

Thanks, Minister, for being here.

I need to follow up on comments you made to my colleague.

You cannot sit here and say that collectively we need to restore honour to the skilled trades and promote them as great careers for our young people while continuing to vilify skilled trade workers. It is your government that suggested that bringing construction workers into rural communities had harmful social and gender impacts, and it is your government that has continued to vilify the Canadian energy sector and those who work in that sector.

I will not take you saying one thing out of one side of your mouth while your actions say another. That is the truth. Your government has never supported trade workers.