Status of Women committee  There is a bonus system that encourages trades people to work longer hours. There is a system that gives bonus hours so that new skills can be learned more quickly, and a wage scale that goes up as a function of the number of hours worked. When construction workers have their pl

Status of Women committee  Do you mean to get women into the building trades specifically?

Status of Women committee  This is what we have observed ourselves. These young women come to training with far more diplomas than the young men do. In Quebec, we are seeing a phenomenon that, I think, also applies across Canada: girls do better in higher education than boys. These women will have more acc

Status of Women committee  There needs to be a more systematic approach developed with employers, somewhat like the European model. The apprenticeship system is an alternating work-study system. That requires industry to go to great lengths from an organizational standpoint in order to open its doors at th

Status of Women committee  In this sector, that is true.

Status of Women committee  But there is a common thread. Lawyers want their children to be lawyers and plumbers also want their children to be lawyers.

Status of Women committee  Over the years, we have realized that the information, although available, was not ending up in the right places. Always targeting the same audience, meaning grade 9 and 10 students, was perhaps not the best idea. We might need to tell young girls what is available much earlier.

Status of Women committee  Those are very good questions. We have information from the Commission de la construction du Québec, as these women are registered in an apprenticeship system and they tally up hours in order to become journeywomen. This information can be quite specific and we know that the re

Status of Women committee  We talked about new technologies to prevent workplace accidents. For our part, in terms of training, we look very closely at new technologies. Perhaps the government could fund research to adapt work stations. It could be a kind of field of research devoted to keeping women worki

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  The percentage is related to the number of enrolments in a given year.

Status of Women committee  So, a third of students take the training. We will have to check this with the Commission de la construction, but with regard to the figures, as Mr. Smillie mentioned, the problem in retaining workers in the construction industry is a general one. It is the same for men. I do not

Status of Women committee  You are talking more specifically about the women in the training modules.

Status of Women committee  I may not have the statistics for all of the school board's 21 programs. I have more experience with the Centre de formation Le Chantier. These are specifically construction programs, five of which are with Mr. Smillie. They are pretty similar, including brickwork, masonry, elect