Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely. I've lost the number now, but I think a disproportionate number of women are taking on precarious work and unpaid internships as well, so we see the need to invest both in making post-secondary education more accessible but also increasing the number of high-qual

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We endorse the calls from our coalition partners in the labour movement for a universal system of child care. I don't have the best expertise in this, but it's part of our holistic vision for accessible post-secondary education, recognizing that women and trans folks

Status of Women committee  Yes. Any increase to student assistance is welcome, but, ultimately, this is just pushing the burden of paying the debt down the line. Whether students are paying their student debt six months in, a year in, or five years in, ultimately, they are accumulating much more debt in or

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We also call for the elimination of unpaid internships. We welcome the first step that was taken in budget 2017 in terms of eliminating unpaid internships here on the Hill, but we think that the federal government has a much larger role to play in terms of eliminati

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I'm not an expert on that issue, but I will say that it reflects what we recognize as the overall deterioration of quality with institutions being underfunded. It's not just about the high cost of education; it's about increasing reliance on contract faculty who are s

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. That's an excellent question. First, I'd like to clarify the free-tuition piece. Ontario and New Brunswick now have models of upfront student grants that propose to eliminate tuition fees for students from families that make under a certain income threshold. However,

Status of Women committee  Thank you, and good morning, members of the committee. My name is Charlotte Kiddell, and I am the deputy chairperson of the Canadian Federation of Students. The federation is Canada's oldest and largest national student organization, representing over 650,000 college, undergradu