Status of Women committee  What we're trying to do is partner with established channels. There are a lot of organizations who are doing really good work. We have no intention of re-creating the wheel, so Techsploration is an established program in Nova Scotia that works with schools, targeted at the grade

Status of Women committee  The possibility is there. We're in our first few years of funding, so I think that we're still trying to figure out what will work. At this point we're likely looking at grade nine and up.

Status of Women committee  Certainly we have a very strong local partnership with our trades population through Unifor. We have very strong advocates for women in trades. We're taking a long-term strategy and a short-term strategy. As we are hiring, because we have the opportunity to have qualified women

Status of Women committee  If I can add, too, one of the things that we think is great about this class of women is that all of these 20 women right now who are participating in this program did so from a desire to participate in trades, not because they knew this funding was an option. We told them about

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you today. As you mentioned, my name is Anna Marenick and I am the director of community relations and value proposition here at Irving Shipbuilding. Irving Shipbuilding is one company in the J.D. Irving group of companies,