Status of Women committee  From the employer side and from the female participants, they are saying that they weren't aware, and some of them weren't aware of the funding programs that are out at both the provincial and the federal levels. That's something that's important, so we help to share that informa

Status of Women committee  I recommend a stronger collaborative effort with industry associations. I think we have construction industry associations right across Canada. We have the Canadian Construction Association, and all of the provincial associations are members of the Canadian association. Then you

Status of Women committee  I think you reach them through the education system. Education is mandatory, so why can't we reach them? If they don't want to come in, if we don't want to implement these programs through the province and then through the school boards, how about a paper campaign? How about some

Status of Women committee  Definitely by grade 6.

Status of Women committee  Yes. Perhaps it's on “bring your parent day”, when your parent comes in. Maybe your parent works in an office, or.... I actually have two careers. I've put them together. I was a woman in construction, and now I'm a construction lawyer. I went to a career day not for my son but

Status of Women committee  —to show them that you can be anything you want to be. Yes, I'm a woman in construction: here are the plans, here is my hard hat, here are my boots. It made it real.

Status of Women committee  In that particular program, it was 300. For the CAWIC program, we try to do it through the school boards.

Status of Women committee  I think they're all receptive. It's about organizing. We do probably four or five a year through the different school boards.

Status of Women committee  That could be....

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  What CAWIC has been doing is partnering up with the school boards. We will actually go into the schools, into the elementary schools, and we'll have a career day at grade six, so we'll actually talk to them. We'll bring in tradeswomen to talk to them about trades at a very early

Status of Women committee  We are trying to change that perception within the industry. One of the things that have become very prevalent in our knowledge base going through this research program is that the industry itself is quite fractured in its initiatives. Within the industry, women are even more fra

Status of Women committee  It's still early, but those are very valuable programs. The challenge there is that when you go into the schools and you go into the different industries, they're actually not aware of those programs, so there's not enough profiling of those programs. Even the OYAP program, the O

Status of Women committee  It's an excellent program.

Status of Women committee  And it's an ear, a natural ear.