Status of Women committee  Exactly, yes.

Status of Women committee  Recently, I think, with some of the changes in the economy, there has been an uptake a bit on the formal program, the work-sharing program, from the government. But generally it's a “work as much as you can, as long as you can” kind of industry. The contractor is demanding the wo

Status of Women committee  It's not my seminar; it's a symposium being put on by the Construction Sector Council. I don't want to speak for them, but I would suggest that the clerk or Madam Fry or even you yourself could call them and ask them for more information. They have a draft date, and I believe the

Status of Women committee  I'll go ahead and start. I did notice in some of my preparations for today that in Austria and in Germany, there is a focus on exposing young women to these competencies very early on. As a result, it looks like the economy has a higher penetration rate of people who are involve

Status of Women committee  That's all I need. I would recommend talking to the folks at the Alberta Women Building Futures. It's something I mentioned in my presentation. It's a joint program between Petro-Canada and the Government of Alberta. I would recommend talking to them about the literature they put

Status of Women committee  In our universe, the only sort of system in place would be the joint apprenticeship and training committee, which is something between a group of the contractors in the area and a group of the trades. That joint apprenticeship committee is responsible for ironing out any issues w

Status of Women committee  I've seen that attitude. In fact, it's even intertwined in some of the systems that are in place in this country. If someone applies to move to Canada, they find it difficult to be admissible because the point system doesn't give the same recognition to trades training as it does

Status of Women committee  C'est ca. At the end of the day, we've been working with the government on a number of things through the red seal program and through HRSDC. This would be something we could fit in there, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  I think this committee has sort of set the stage to examine the issue in greater light. In terms of a pilot program, our organization and our contractor partners out there would be absolutely willing to get as much information as possible. We talked a lot about getting informat

Status of Women committee  This preparation was sort of the brainchild of this pilot project. I had an epiphany, so to speak, about this, and it's probably something we should be focusing on.

Status of Women committee  You know what? At the end of the day, I think it's about availability of work. People are looking for steady work when they're young. If the choice is between finishing the apprentice program in construction and only working 700 to 1,000 hours and working in a call centre where t

Status of Women committee  I don't want to offend any of my employer partners out there in the world, but at the end of the day it really is up to the individual in the field to monitor their own progress through their apprenticeship program. Because a construction apprentice might work for 10 or 15 employ

Status of Women committee  Usually what happens is you go on what they call “block release”. No offence to the Bloc. You do your six months of on-the-job training. The good thing about our apprentices is they get paid while they're working, and then they have block release, where an employer will release 1

Status of Women committee  In terms of percentages, the information I found said between 16% and 25%, so it's still a very low number. On the acceptability scale it's still only 16% to.... It depends on which trade and where, but generally the range was 16% to one-quarter actually go through and complete a

Status of Women committee  Someone could accuse me of committing pregnancy then too.