This document discusses gender equality in Canada. It provides an overview of Canada's ranking in global studies of gender equality, which has fallen to 19th in recent years. Several topics are discussed around women in the workforce, including participation rates, the gender pay gap, and the underrepresentation of women in fields like technology and skilled trades. Barriers for women in small business and achieving pay equity are also examined. The document advocates for policies focused on merit rather than gender in hiring and promotion.

1. Gender Equality – Canada
PAUL YOUNG CPA CGA
JULY 7, 2020

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA
• Academia (PF1, FA4 and MS2)
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Supply Chain Management
Contact information:
Paul_Young_CGA@Hotmail.com

3. Summary
 People should be judge on qualifications and experience, not
gender
 Surveys do not discuss experience and education. Many
employers have a grid system which is based on merit,
experience and education
 Women sometimes make choices that put their family first over
their careers
 There are more women in workspace than 30 years ago
 Canada 2020 world ranking on gender equality fell to 19th
which is same ranking Canada had back in 2014.
 Education attainment still has #1 ranking as it did back in 2016.
Education needs to be aligned with job quality.
 Trudeau claims to be gender PM, but many areas of equality
have lagged under his watch.

4. Agenda
 What is Equality?
 Global Ranking
 Pay Equity – What is pay equity?
 Small Business
 Canada Wage Gap Ranking
 Morneau Shapell
 M103 and Sharia Law
 Employment by Sex
 Women Participation / Workforce
 Gender Participation / G7

5. Gender Equality
Gender equality is achieved when women and men enjoy the same rights and
opportunities across all sectors of society, including economic participation and
decision-making, and when the different behaviours, aspirations and needs of women
and men are equally valued and favoured.
Source - http://genderequality.ie/en/GE/Pages/WhatisGE

6. Gender Quality – World Ranking
Source - http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GGGR_2017.pdf
• Canada was rank
19th in 2014
• Canada is now
ranked 19th which
is only 3 spot
improvement since
2014
• Trudeau has fallen
back to 2014 levels

7. Canada Ranking / 2020
Source – World Economic Forum

8. Gender Equality / Canada
Source – World Economic Forum
2015
2016
2018
2014
• More and more women have entered politics -
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/women-politics/

9. Women vs Men Business Ownership

10. Canada Women in Workplace
Source - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-630-x/11-630-x2015009-eng.htm

11. Gender Participation / Business Ownership
Source - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/11F0019M2020010

12. Women in the workforce
Source - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-503-x/2015001/article/14694-eng.htm

13. Small Business
• Retail and hospitality sectors will be transformed post-covid 19 -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/transforming-the-economy-
postcovid19-canada-and-the-world
• Reforming policies that relate to supply chain management and
development of natural resources -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/how-best-to-reshore-supply-
chains
• More encouragement for women and others to enter the skills trade area -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/human-capital-management-
skills-and-education

14. What is Pay Equity?
Pay Equity is equal pay for work of equal value
Source - http://www.payequity.gov.on.ca/en/AboutUs/Pages/the_difference.aspx

15. Small Business
Source - http://canadianentrepreneurtraining.com/7-statistics-about-canadian-small-businesses/

16. Wage Gap - Ranking
Source - http://www.businessinsider.com/countries-with-the-biggest-gender-pay-gap-2016-3

17. Morneau Shapell Board of Directors
Source - https://www.morneaushepell.com/ca-en/board-directors
• 1/3 of Morneau Shepell
board members are female

18. Blog – Gender Equality
 The World Economic Forum has released its annual study on gender equality, and
Canada once again is ranked 20th. http://lawofwork.ca/?p=2244
 Liberals need to take emotions out of their economic focus and put focus on
getting things done like pipelines built or streamlining of regulations -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/canada-importance-of-trace-february-
2018
 Source - https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/key-budgetary-goal-to-help-women-
enter-work-force-would-lift-economy-analysis-1.3813367

19. Sharia Law and M103
 “Canada is inching toward a broadly-based law
that would codify “Islamophobia” as a hate
crime without even defining Islamophobia or
demonstrating that it is a phenomenon
requiring legal action. After first passing a
motion that condemns Islamophobia, last
month, Iqra Khalid, a Member of Parliament
(MP) from the governing Liberals, tabled
Motion M-103 in the House of Commons. The
motion demands that Islamophobia be treated
as a crime without even bothering to define the
offense.”
Source -
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2017/01/29
/iqra-khalid-intros-sharia-law-bill/
Sharia Law / Canada
“’ll tell you who wants to bring Sharia Law,” Thompson said
then. “The Canadian government wants to bring Sharia Law
and this is not a joke. Why? Because Sharia Law is simply the
way Muslims are doing things.”
“The Canadian government wanted the Muslims to be able to
regulate their own issues….to solve their problems amongst
themselves [according] to Sharia Law, so it is not a burden on
the court system which is already so bogged down.
“The government told us – we would like you to have this
system, and we would like to work on these initiatives with
you.”
”
Source - https://gellerreport.com/2018/02/trudeau-
sharia.html/

20. Employment
by Gender

21. Carbon Tax / Equality
Michelle Rempel asked Bill Morneau about gender analysis of carbon tax

22. PM Trudeau - Groping
• Trudeau has never owned his groping event as such continues to portray himself as a feminist

23. Justin Trudeau Feminist Statement
• Jody Wilson-Raybould was demoted -
https://globalnews.ca/news/5025938/gerald-butts-
dinner-jody-wilson-raybould/
• Jane Philpott resigned -
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/philpott-resignation-
trudeau-snc-lavalin-1.5042411
• Melanie Joly was demoted -
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/once-a-rising-
star-melanie-joly-demoted-after-hurting-liberals-in-
quebec
• Celina Caesar-Chavannes resigned
https://torontosun.com/news/national/lilley-liberal-mp-
celina-caesar-chavannes-cryptic-message
• Elbowing NDP Female MP

24. Gender Participation
Source - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-503-x/2015001/article/14694-eng.htm

25. Women and Skill Trades

26. Skills Trades by Gender

27. Women in Board Positions
Source - https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=3310021801#timeframe

28. 2019 Election
Who would be better for gender equality?
@justintrudeau who talks a great story, but then introduces small tax reforms that would hurt female
entrepreneurs or the fact Trudeau elbow a MP -
@Andrewscheer who believes in supporting a fairer tax system as well as making Canada more
competitive - https://www.conferenceboard.ca/hcp/Details/society/gender-income-
gap.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

29. Women in Accounting
Source - https://www.catalyst.org/research/women-in-accounting/

30. Women and Technology
“”Source - https://techjury.net/blog/women-in-technology-statistics/#gref

31. Natural Resources Sector
Source -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/c
anada-natural-resources-sector-whats-next
• More alignment of females with math,
sciences and technology
• Revamping policies that supporting getting
goods out of the ground to market
• More encouragement for women to enter
the engineering field -
https://engineerscanada.ca/diversity/wome
n-in-engineering/30-by-30
• Shrinking the wage gap -
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/statistic
s-canada-gender-wage-gap-1.5311454
• More incentives/assistance as part of
supporting entering the skill trades -
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-
503-x/2015001/article/14640-eng.htm

32. Women / Careers
 Construction- “September LFS data indicates participation by women in the construction labour force is
down from 2018 peak” - https://www.buildforce.ca/en/blog/september-lfs-data-indicates-
participation-women-construction-labour-force-down-2018-peak

33. What’s next
 Small business tax reforms need to be repealed - https://www.cfib-fcei.ca/en/media/small-businesses-need-
tax-fairness-innovation-and-training-support-2018-federal-budget
 Access to capital https://www.canadianbusiness.com/lists-and-rankings/growth-500/2019-ranking-g500/
 Affordable housing - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-housing-affordability-canada-
june-2019
 Push more women into sciences, IT, math, etc. fields of studies. -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/2019-election-skills-management-career-and-employment-canada-
september-2019
 Liberals need to stop thinking this is the 1950s
 People need to be promoted based on the skill & experience and not solely on their gender.
 Liberals need to focus on supply chain as part of improving job quality for females and males -
https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/how-best-to-reshore-supply-chains
 Educational attainment by females have been excellent. There needs to be more alignment of education with
jobs of today and tomorrow - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga/human-capital-skills-trades-and-skills-
development

34. Training and Development
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