Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Perhaps I will save you some of the time that you're losing due to the vote. I don't think I'll take the full ten minutes, and I look forward to the questions. Members of the committee, it is a great honour for me to be asked to appear before

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. I think mentorship is a vitally important aspect of developing self-esteem and confidence and also in helping to plan career paths for young women. The problem is, if we talk about what you were expressing, that the early stages of development for young wome

Status of Women committee  I am very fortunate to be in the position I'm in. The biggest challenge I had was skepticism—that I wasn't able to do my job and that I wasn't able to lead men in this organization—but I'm a firm believer in situational leadership, whether we're in a family setting, on a job site

Status of Women committee  Is that directed to me, Member Ashton?

Status of Women committee  I believe that we can go a long way with my final point, which was about utilizing the Canada child tax benefit so we can actually free up more available income for these people so they can make their own decisions. They may choose to go back to school. They may choose to get a b

Status of Women committee  No, exactly— Ms. Niki Ashton —for money for child care and for raising their children. Would you agree that there's a disconnect or perhaps a need to look at those kinds of real supports, and obviously supports that are in line with our economic reality?

Status of Women committee  Yes, I agree. I also should say that I believe that we need to have a much higher tax benefit available to those low-income families and the types of families we're discussing that you brought up.

Status of Women committee  Well, as you may or may not know, our company is quite diversified. We have manufacturing. We make industrial workforce housing for remote sites around the world. We have power generation, electricity transmission and distribution, gas transmission and distribution, mid-streaming

Status of Women committee  I think I'm saying again what I was trying to say earlier. I believe it's educating young women, saying, “You can do it. You have all the capabilities. There is nothing that should stop you.” We could do that with our public programming and advertising. We talk to kids about not

Status of Women committee  Okay, it will be very quick. Initial lack of respect would be the biggest challenge.

Status of Women committee  As you know, I do have a little different circumstance. Interestingly enough, it was my father who really encouraged me. I didn't initially have an inclination towards leadership. I always liked commerce. I was always very keen to explore the world of commerce and of creating val

Status of Women committee  ATCO Electric has our largest complement of people, about 2,000 people. In our last two years our hiring policy has been 50-50, and 50% of our new engineers are women. We have about 33% women out of the 9,000 employees.

Status of Women committee  Zero tolerance.