Ontario

Ontario CCLOW members have been active on a number of national projects. A number are on the Advisory Committees of the Adult Basic Education project and the Women's Learning Resource Centre. A group of members went before the Macdonald Commission on December 5 to discuss the issues raised in the CCLOW brief on Women and The Labor Force: What Does The Future Hold?

The Waterloo and Ottawa caucuses have been meeting and working on issues related to the access of women to training and employment. Members of the Ottawa network represented CCLOW at the Canada Tomorrow Conference, a conference on micro technology sponsored by the federal government. Our members were instrumental in raising critical issues about women and technology. The conference had been organized to ensure that these issues would be "glossed over", at best, or no raised at all.

In November a Toronto caucus of CCLOW women was formed, and a representative of this group attended the Regional meeting of the Jobs for the Future Conference sponsored of the new Ontario Women's Directorate. The meeting was very successful in focusing on women's training and education concerns, and resulted in a commitment from the employer representatives and from Robert Welch, Minister responsible for Women's Issues to expand the government Affirmative Action program.