When I took the role, I knew that it would not be an easy sell because of things that happened to women veterans and the LGBTQ community in the military. It goes back to the level of trust. It's not a hard job for me, because I've worked in the recruiting sector. I am a social person. I love meeting people. I love doing the trade shows and the conferences, but it's a hard sell.
Women keep coming back to how it's a male-dominated world. Even some tradeswomen that I've met say that there's harassment within the trades. I'm familiar with that, because I'm a veteran. I come from the military. We know it's happened. We know of the misconduct. We always have to be aware. We have to be vigilant. Like Joe says, there's....
I was reading online just a little while ago about all the training they do with their people within the trades. It's not like it's building trades and they don't do any training for diversity, inclusion or LGBTQ. They do all of that. We've done all of that in the military, but it's one of those things that I think will always be there, which is sad. We're trying to change this.
I know that, for a small population, 10% of the tradespeople in Newfoundland are women. I think that's one of the highest percentages in Canada. That's because we're so resilient and tough.