Status of Women committee  I would say that it is primarily at the corporate and leadership levels, but we do have strong champions on site. There could be a mine manager with a workforce of 300 to 400 people who wants to increase the participation of women, or in some cases aboriginal or new Canadians. Th

Status of Women committee  Certainly some of these barriers are quite obvious. I can give you a few examples. If you look at the facilities that exist underground in some of the mines, with washrooms in different parts of the mine, historically these were not in place to accommodate women, and today they

Status of Women committee  Pay equity in Canadian society in general remains a problem. I can't speak specifically, and I don't have the statistics behind pay equity differences in the mining sector. We do very little, when it comes to compensation in the industry, as an organization. I can tell you that

Status of Women committee  Part of our gender equity in mining project is looking at all of these barriers that may exist. I'll give you one example. We've conducted what we call a “physical demand” analysis on a number of occupations in the industry. An entry requirement to the mining sector used to be

Status of Women committee  We do. We have what we call a Virtual MineMentor Program. The idea behind the program was that we were seeing a significant amount of mid-program attrition at the post-secondary education level. People would start in mining-related programs, be it in geosciences or skilled trades

Status of Women committee  Yes, she is. Zoë Yujnovich used to be the president of IOC, Iron Ore Company of Canada, and has now moved to Shell. She continues to be the senior executive with Shell Canada and is still the president of MAC.

Status of Women committee  She was the first woman in 120 years.

Status of Women committee  Fine, thank you.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. Thank you, Madam Chair and committee members, for the opportunity to appear as a witness and to address the committee this morning. My name is Ryan Montpellier and I'm the executive director at the Mining Industry Human Resources Council, also

Human Resources committee  If I can just add, we've developed a number of resources at the council to help our members. When they move into a community or when they explore for the next mine, they have the right resources to help educate the local population about the opportunities at each phase of the min

Human Resources committee  We have 10 active sites today. We've had intakes in B.C., Yukon, the NWT, Saskatchewan, nothing in Manitoba, several in Ontario—several in the Ring of Fire and the Sudbury Basin. We'll have our first intake in Quebec starting next month. We'll have our first French intake in Onta

Human Resources committee  I thank you very much for your question. I agree with what you said in the beginning concerning the importance of early education. We need schools and training to equip people with basic skills so that they can have success in their future careers. One of the biggest issues in

Human Resources committee  Thanks, Pierre. Thank you, Mr. Chair and the members of the committee. It's a pleasure to be here this morning. We certainly appreciate the opportunity to address the committee. I'm the executive director at the Mining Industry Human Resources Council. The MiHR Council is a non

Human Resources committee  If it's okay with you, Mr. Chair, I think having Mr. Gratton from the Mining Association of Canada begin and sort of provide an industry overview would be probably a better sequence of activity, if that's fine with you.

Human Resources committee  It's the Canadian mining certification program, built by—