Finance committee  I have to defer that question to somebody else at the table here. The work I do at CME tends to be focused on national issues, so my familiarity with the structure in Alberta is probably not as good as somebody else's here.

Finance committee  That's right, yes. Our position is that we are not necessarily opposed to a carbon tax as a means to achieve a public policy goal, but it's a carrot-and-stick issue. If you tax businesses, you create the stick but you remove their capacity to invest in mitigating products because

Finance committee  I would echo that comment. The accelerated capital cost allowance is a huge issue. If you're looking for any one thing that would make a difference as soon as possible, it would certainly be that. Beyond a first one, nothing leaps off the page quite to the same extent as the ACCA

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. I'm here, as mentioned, on behalf of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, our 2,500 direct members across the country, and the broader manufacturing and exporting communit

Status of Women committee  We had a list of five specific strategic initiatives that we wanted to be working on: high-profile female role models, exposure to manufacturing occupations, encouraging girls to enter STEM and skilled trades. That one for sure is number one. If we're looking for a long-term solu

Status of Women committee  Specifically, we had a couple of questions in there about women's networking groups and about whether or not those were useful to women. We were a little bit disappointed with those results, to be honest. First of all, a fairly large number did not have access to women's working

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, yes. Not related to this specific study, but the work that we're doing on female representation in manufacturing is building on a national strategy, which I mentioned in passing, that we developed last year. One of the issues there was the general labour supply and sh

Status of Women committee  There are a couple of areas where we could better communicate the benefits of working in the skilled trades. One is the pay is very high. The amount of student debt that you might go into is relatively low. There's huge demand. The work that you would be doing is very flexible. Y

Status of Women committee  In addition to what was mentioned earlier, which I completely agree with, there are a couple of specific areas where we're looking to partner with governments. One is that at the end of the day, it comes down to a labour supply issue. We need more women to be choosing the types

Status of Women committee  I think so, yes. We are going to be working with Status of Women Canada. We've made note of the initiatives that you mentioned earlier, and I think that we'll be making some submissions for those programs as well.

Status of Women committee  Not to my knowledge, no.

Status of Women committee  We did. In the barriers that were listed we had two that overlapped. One is the work-life balance, and one is whether they thought they could meet family commitments without damaging their current and future career advancement. We didn't delve into the solutions end of it, speci

Status of Women committee  One of the things that we did with this survey was.... It's impossible to control exactly who is going to respond to your survey, so we did ask a number of filtering questions that we'd get different kinds of responses on, and one of those was so we could filter out men. We had 8

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. In fact, if you go to the CME website, we have a larger version of this report there and the appendix has detailed survey results. If there is more information that you would like that is not in the survey results, I'd be happy to provide that as well.

Status of Women committee  When we did the main report of our...the one that this is based on, there were a number of issues—I should say benefits—that came up in the research related to that. One was the increase in innovation and productivity that comes from having women in the manufacturing workforce. A