Mrs. Patricia Cummings-Diaz at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On June 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.

June 2nd, 2009 / 2:45 p.m.

Co-Chair, FOR Women's Autonomy, Rights and Dignity (FORWARD)

For right now, it should be special measures. There should be special measures.

This has been going on for 13 years. I can't work 40 hours any more. I'm lucky if I can work 20.

Right now I should be in Chapingo, Mexico, doing research on rural women, making $35,000 a year, helping my children get their university education. But this is how debilitated I've become. This is all I can do.

EI is a mess, and especially with part-time work. Remember, a number of people are working two, three, apparently four part-time jobs. They're paying EI and they don't get anything from it.

I don't get anything from EI. Two hundred people just lost their jobs in my office.

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