Thank you to our witnesses today.
I'd like to start with Sophie Brière.
I was quite interested when you were talking about the perception of equality. I know a number of years ago, when I was a mayor of a city in British Columbia, we needed to find a new chief executive officer or manager for the city. I had a number of women in senior management roles within the municipality, and I wanted to look at the possibility of hiring a woman versus a man for the chief executive officer role. I hired a headhunting firm, and we had extreme difficulty in finding people to come forward from the feminine gender to take it on.
One of the biggest problems was trying to find people who would move from the location they were in and who had gained enough experience to handle the job that we were asking. Actually, we couldn't do it. I finally found a lady to come out from retirement to take on the role, and I'm pleased to say she worked out very well. She's still there, some 10 or 11 years later.
Do you find that because of the uniqueness of the feminine...she might be a wife, a mother, versus the guy who's going to move on for a job role, they are maybe somewhat hesitant to take that big move?