Status of Women committee  I'm not a tradeswoman, so I'll start with that. This is why I rely on the tradeswomen in the field to give me the information I need. I am from the labour movement. I've worked for a few unions before this, but I think I'm very lucky to work for an employer that is saying, “Do wh

Status of Women committee  Do you mean what the barriers are, or what they're interested in?

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  There are some trades that are doing better than others in terms of retention of women. There are reasons behind that. There could be a general interest, or it could be the effort on behalf of that particular trade. There are lots of female electricians. There are quite a few fem

Status of Women committee  Welding is so hard.

Status of Women committee  I'm terrible.

Status of Women committee  I hear from the women I work with who have been around in the field for about 20 years, and they say that things are changing, from their experience, on the job site. Where they used to be alone in the field as women, they are now seeing three or four women, maybe more. It depend

Status of Women committee  I'm glad you asked that. We tried to apply for an open call for proposal a few years ago. This is where the problem with the funding issue all started. We partnered with an organization in Newfoundland and Labrador called Office to Advance Women Apprentices. Newfoundland and Labr

Status of Women committee  There's a disconnect there.

Status of Women committee  I don't know if anybody would say no to that; maybe they would. But certainly I think women who are experiencing domestic violence should be able to take leave. I know there's some discussion that maybe they should take sick leave and those sorts of things. But I would say why no

Status of Women committee  In unionized....

Status of Women committee  There's a lot being done out there. There are a lot of fantastic organizations, and the government has been very supportive of the work that organizations are doing to create awareness around opportunities in the skilled trades. We go out to schools. We talk to kids. We talk to p

Status of Women committee  I don't know if we have that master recipe yet. I can give you, though, a Cole's Notes version of what we're trying to accomplish here. Buildforce Canada received funding a year ago from Status of Women Canada to do a project on tools for implementing respectful workplaces, tra

Status of Women committee  I think—

Status of Women committee  So x it out.