Status of Women committee  I'm not going to answer in French, just because I think I'm going to stumble over it. As regards quotas versus no quotas, I'm personally not in favour of quotas. I think that's getting a little ahead of the problem. I feel that adding quotas would make people resent women more, just because if we went straight from 26% to 50% of the House of Commons being women, a lot of people would perceive that as stealing seats away from other people, even though that's likely not the case as women are very qualified.

Status of Women committee  I don't think I can speak for every single person in my generation, but for me and my social circles I think one of the biggest factors is a disillusionment in what they think government can do for them. They see a disconnect between government and how it serves youth. I think one way to fix that would be for parties to make an effort to reach out to more young people.

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much for having us today. My name is Victoria deJong, and I am the delegate for Edmonton Griesbach. For the next few minutes, I'll be talking about women's political participation and the way parties need to step up to run women. As I'm sure we all know, women are less likely than similarly educated men to consider themselves qualified to run for office.