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Alberta's finance minister, Joe Ceci, donated a new pair of work boots to a young woman. ​Ceci was at the Women Building Futures, a group that works to attract and train women for the construction industry. "It's a tradition of Canadian finance ministers to put on a new pair of shoes as they present the budget," he said. Last year, he delivered the budget wearing an old pair of his father's work boots. "This year, again, I've thought that … donating these [boots] would be a fine thing to do," Ceci said. "To recognize that young women who have had some adversity in their careers already were getting great support through a place like Women Building Futures." JudyLynn Archer, CEO of Women Building Futures, said the group will train more than 1,000 women this year. Thirty per cent of them will be aboriginal women. The program has a 90 per cent success rate in finding jobs for graduates, she said. "We will need tens of thousands of new tradespeople in this industry, and women are going to help fill that demand." Question: Does this sound like a worthwhile program to you?

I met a young woman whose father worked as an electrician and she was finishing her schooling for the same. Do you know any women who are in a trades program or work in the trades industry?

Do you currently work in the trades field?