Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, witnesses, for being with us today. I certainly appreciate your taking the time to be with us.
My first question is for Verna Heinrichs.
I want to first congratulate you on your positive attitude towards helping women and towards how we will make use of the money that our government has been putting into helping women. Sometimes women need to see a more positive attitude in how we work with this money and make things happen for women, rather than just being made to feel that we are always being put down. I know our government wants to help women in the workforce. We have put in lots of money under our economic plan.
So I would like you to explain how you feel that your positive attitude towards women helps them to become more involved and to really want to do their best. That is what I see as a teacher. I feel that if you're going to help the ladies, it is going to be by doing it with a positive attitude all the way, and so I would like you to explain that to us.