Thank you.
I'd really like to spend some time congratulating Kate McInturff from the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action. It's refreshing to finally get the women's perspective on the table, with so many men in shirts, ties, suits, and things like that.
We've heard about poverty. We've heard about the outcomes for kids. We've heard that 70% of the jobs today require post-secondary education, and that will go to about 77% very soon. All of those things start early. Women are depended upon by our mechanisms to be the first caregivers, and we need support. The gender analysis thing is a wonderful concept, but I've never seen it work. I think we have to call a bluff, really.
I'm glad you raised it. I don't know if every bill that should have a gender analysis actually has it attached to the damn thing, but you have to remind the government that it's a commitment we made and it has to be there.
Women, as daughters, are closer to their moms and dads than sons are. That means women also seem to be the first ones who have to withdraw from the paid economy to care for families.
How important is it that we recognize that unpaid work in a variety of ways? What recommendations would you like to reiterate or add?