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PHOTO COURTESY MANDY BUJOLD - Eleven-time Canadian flyweight boxing champ Mandy Bujold retired from the ring after the 2020 Olympics, which took place in 2021. She still holds charity boxing matches.
“Mandy’s voice is necessary as we continue to strive for excellence, enhance our efforts on our employees being fit for work and the importance of a continued focus on health and safety,” he said in a statement. “Her presence in construction will create pathways for more careers for women and open the dialogue that will break down the real or perceived barriers to entry.”Commented Bujold, “There are a lot of similarities between boxing and construction.
Mandy Bujold comes from a construction family — her father was a labourer who moved the family for work a couple of times, including to New Brunswick to work on the Confederation Bridge, two brothers are steelworkers and an uncle is a bricklayer.“He was always proud of the projects that he worked on. He talks about his name being on the. I think those pieces are really important, and so I definitely have that exposure.
“Being on a jobsite, it’s probably very similar to walking in a boxing gym,” she said. “You walk into a boxing gym, especially when I first started, you look around, you’re the only female there, everybody’s watching you. My brother didn’t want me to start boxing because he was afraid someone was going to hit on me. So I feel like it’s probably a lot of the same things that they deal with.
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