Transport committee  Thank you for having me here today. This is a great honour. You are all aware of the shortage that is facing the aviation industry. Right now we have an industry that's looking very hard to fill positions, but is the industry also open to those positions being filled by women?

Transport committee  I think it depends on the area of the industry. It's so different. If we're talking about air traffic control, where I am, fewer than 1% leave. With regard to pilots, for some of the people we talked to, it comes down to financial reasons. They can't afford to stay. There are,

Transport committee  Yes. For instance, my son just got his private pilot's licence, so now he's moving on. He has to build hours. He has to go out and fly and build hours and pay for that. How does he pay for that? He has to get a job or ask mom. He has to go out and get a job so that he can afford

Transport committee  I just went down to the Canadian Airport Council board meeting in L.A. about two weeks ago, and I was speaking with all the airport CEOs across Canada. They all seem very interested, from my point of view anyway, in helping us take our cross-country tours and our learning centre

Transport committee  I don't think I would be the best one to answer that, because I'm at the beginning, pushing people in, or encouraging people to get in.

Transport committee  Status of Women gave us $426,410 to do a three-year project to determine why women aren't looking at aviation as a career for economic security, all across Canada. We have now closed our surveys. We sent out surveys all across Canada to students, to air cadets, to COPA, to indus

Transport committee  At the learning centre in Edmonton, there is not. On our cross-country tour, we go to Montreal and we have French speakers there, and in Ottawa as well. On our cross-country tour we have speakers in the morning and tours in the afternoon inside the industry, so whether we have Fr

Transport committee  I don't think so. I could be wrong about that, but I don't think so. English is the language of aviation we have to speak on the radio around the world, so you do have to speak English for the most part if you're a pilot or an air traffic controller. In Quebec you can be an air

Transport committee  The focus of that program was just women. As we're growing, we are learning that we need to focus more on indigenous people, so at our learning centre, we have two weeks that are indigenous only. The focus of that is women, whether they are indigenous or non-indigenous. We're goi

Transport committee  We need you on our committee.

Transport committee  Thank you for that.

Transport committee  Bring awareness to the community would help. For instance, we're trying to take our learning centre in Edmonton across Canada. Anything that can be done to help us take it across Canada and secure funds would help. We can take it across Canada; we just need the funds to help us d

Transport committee  Yes, it is.

Transport committee  Yes. Nav Canada trains the air traffic controllers.

Transport committee  SAIT has the pilot program in Calgary.