Finance committee  We've been spending a lot of time and money on trying to develop respect in our workplaces. Sometimes people think we're rough, tough, mean, and smell bad in our workplaces, and to some degree that's true, but we're going to change the culture. For things such as child care, lo

Finance committee  I do have a comment with respect to that.

Finance committee  It simply won't. I'm a baby boomer. I know I look a lot younger than that. When I started, it was farm boys and the captain of the football team. We had a male-dominated business, and we had people lined up out the door to get in. Every industry is now fishing in the same pool.

Finance committee  Actually, 51%.

Finance committee  You know, you really make a good point. We had successes with things like the Alliance pipeline. We got a crew of people. We got them up to speed. They were working. Everything was great. Then the job ended. We had another job down the road, and people didn't want to go . We hadn

Finance committee  Even here.

Finance committee  You're talking about BuildForce Canada.

Finance committee  Number 1 being that employers “can find them everywhere”, and 5 being “can't find them for love nor money.”

Finance committee  Do you think that's true?

Finance committee  It's in Edmonton.

Finance committee  That is really a $64,000 question. When you look at the construction industry, at the skilled trades essentially, not necessarily just construction, for years if a bright, young woman who was captain of the debate team, captain of the volleyball team, and won the school spirit a

Finance committee  I do.

Finance committee  My name is Bob Blakely. It's my privilege to represent the half million unionized construction workers in Canada. Construction is 14% of Canada's GDP and 8% of all direct employment. We maintain a building stock worth about $1 trillion. One of the principal features of organi

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, I think it would only be appropriate that the senior member of the labour movement, the president of our body, speaks first, and I will follow up.

Finance committee  I mean by rank, not necessarily age.