In terms of investments in women being good investments in the general economy, I think you made a very compelling case in terms of your own education and that we, collectively as a society and as an economy, benefit from that important investment.
There was an article a couple of years ago in The Economist magazine called “A Guide to Womenomics”, and it actually identified what kinds of progressive policies around the world have made a real difference in terms of strengthening productivity, from 50% of the workforce in this case, and I'd recommend it to you. You probably are already familiar with it, but it's a very strong economic argument for these investments.
In terms of family care, you talked about the sandwich generation, where you have families looking after children and at the same time ailing or aging relatives. We've proposed a caregiver tax benefit modelled after the child tax benefit for caregivers, as well as extending the current EI caregiver benefit from six weeks to six months to provide an opportunity.... It's not just for women either, but disproportionately a lot of this responsibility seems to fall on women in households.
Would that help for the sandwich generation?