The first point I would like to make is this. Why do we feel this is an urgent situation? Because women in Canada have not yet recovered from the 1991 recession. Women's share of total incomes earned in Canada rose to an historic high of 36% of the total in 1997. It has remained exactly at 36% ever since then. That is an important benchmark, because the other brief point that I'll make is that if you do apply gender-based analysis, you will not just ask whether the corporate income tax cuts money could be spent better elsewhere; you will also ask, what are women getting from that? Statistical analysis demonstrates that women are getting between zero and, at most, 32% or 33% of the benefits of that, because of the demographics of the corporate structure in Canada.
Thank you.