We have over 350 women's advocates in a variety of Unifor workplaces across the country. I personally sit on the board of directors for Halton Women's Place, which has women's shelters, and I know that the shelters today are running at over 100% capacity. As a matter of fact, it's gotten to the point where we've had to rent hotel rooms and different stuff in order to keep women safe.
If you take a look at the pandemic, you'll see that it really has exposed some of the structural problems we have here in Canada, because women, I would argue, are disproportionately impacted by this pandemic, as it relates to who is affected and who is working in essential services. It really shows the structural imbalances and the barriers to women. Women still make about 72% of what men make.
This is probably the best time I could even think of for a national child care strategy in this country, because if we're going to have true equality, we have to eliminate the barriers, because, as progressive as men claim to be, women still bear the burden of work in the household as it relates to child rearing.