Status of Women committee  One way of going about it is to work in partnerships. We have some projects in the works right now with our partners from the Table de concertation à Laval en condition féminine. The first project will be to develop an inspirational booklet for women along the lines of “only the

Status of Women committee  I can give you a personal example. I have a son who looked like he was heading to university. He was a computer analyst. He was really good, I must say. He was employed by National Defence, but one day, the budget was cut and his position was eliminated. He came home and announ

Status of Women committee  I can tell you at the Commission scolaire de Laval, we are always looking to branch out. Vocational training is a large component of our programs. We are spoiled and it is clear that we are always trying to improve ourselves, to be proactive by wanting the best facilities that me

Status of Women committee  And not only that, I can tell you, as I pointed out in my conclusion, that parents may also be to blame. Sometimes they have such an attitude against vocational training! It shows that they are not ready to send their children there. To them, it is not discrimination, it is just

Status of Women committee  Exactly.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  We addressed some of these things during a forum. We will likely do it again because it was extremely interesting. In our case, the people in the trades are the ones feeding us. The women in those trades—we are talking about women, in our case—talked a lot to us during the last f

Status of Women committee  Perhaps Bianka can answer. She deals with female students every day.

Status of Women committee  Yes, the majority of them keep their jobs, because they are able to complete the training. Once they are working, they are able to function. I have here the number of graduates. Women represent 29% of all graduates. We had 107 graduates, including 31 women. This is not very repr

Status of Women committee  That is correct.

Status of Women committee  Certainly. We organized a forum—perhaps Ms. Michaud can talk about it— and that was one of the main reasons mentioned.

Status of Women committee  I'm going to make a conclusion. You have all the texts. The conclusion is very important. Despite a strategy that includes a number of initiatives, it is still the case that few women work in non-traditional occupations and it can be quite difficult to keep them employed there.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. This is how the ministère de l'Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport of Quebec defines a non-traditional curriculum: “A curriculum is considered to be non-traditional when the corresponding professions under the Code national des professions (CNP) indicate a rate of f