I will come back to this later on and you will then be able to provide a more detailed answer.
The representative of the United Steelworkers has stated that working conditions have deteriorated. That is also my opinion. At the beginning of the nineties, the ratio of part-time jobs or precarious jobs was one out of ten whereas today it is five out of ten. You are the Union and I am myself was a union member in the past.
Do you not think that unions are partly responsible? Is the role of unions not to make sure that workers have good working conditions and that those of conditions do not deteriorate? This is not a trick question but, if you come to the same conclusion... What do you think unions could do, in the present context, to correct this situation? It seems to me that unions have a role to play here.
I now want to speak to the representatives of the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada. What you said is quite true: if we want more women to have jobs, we definitely need a strong system of child care services. Is your Association representative enough of the national context to express a common position aimed at putting pressure on the government for setting up such a system? We could talk about this issue for a very long time but we all know what needs to be done. It is a matter of wanting to do it or not. What could we do to make the government want to do it? Setting up the system would not be very complicated.
I'm sorry to have asked many questions but I would like each of you to answer in no more than one minute. I know this may be difficult but I would appreciate it.