Thank you so much. I want to thank everyone for coming and for some very insightful comments.
Ms. Smith, I'm really interested in what you have to say, to come here to this committee as an individual, with no vested interest in anything except the caregiving and the well-being of children and caregivers.
I was very interested in what you said about valuing caregiving. I know in our family my sister stayed home with the children all the time. I sent my children to day care, and yet the work my sister did was totally, in my view, undervalued in many ways. She was a great mom, she did lots of things, but there was nothing out there for her.
Also, on what you're saying about the income splitting and the benefits of equality for women in terms of someone who's a very low-income earner as opposed to another one who's a very high-income earner, there's equality there, because often it's the woman who's the low-income earner, and the sense of dignity and the sense of investment and partnership.
Could you expand a little more? I could have listened to you all day, I really could have, because I thought you hit on some really important things that I've heard all across this country.
Could you comment? I don't want to take your time. I'll just leave it up to you generally.