Thank you.
MPs work incredibly hard. All of us are incredibly grateful for the service you all give to the community and the country.
Certainly, we think the recommendations that Equal Voice is making benefit everybody, men and women. From the surveys we've done, 81% of women feel that running for office would be difficult to manage with other responsibilities in their lives. We did not survey men as well, so I don't have the comparable number for men, but work-life balance is really important for everyone, certainly.
When we think about the benefits of hybrid participation, what we're talking about is that when people cannot or should not come to Ottawa, they're able to do that and yet are still able to fulfill their responsibilities as MPs with things like voting. If, for example, someone has a very ill family member whom they absolutely need to be with, and yet they are still able to vote and make that decision, they can do that. They're not required to be away from that person.