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I'd like to thank, first of all, the witnesses for being here.
My first question is for the Conseil d'intervention pour l'accès des femmes au travail.
My question is about child care. Yesterday the federal government announced a national child care program, something, I might add, that has been promised for over 28 years, but a welcomed announcement. I can't tell you how frustrating it is for me. We talk about EI reforms which are great, but I think we also have to acknowledge that EI was a system set up for white working males back during the Great Depression. Now we see women and we see the impact of the pandemic particularly on them, and particularly on BIPOC women in terms of health care sectors that are getting hit hard with COVID on the front lines.
The national child care program, of course, as you know, was inspired by the Quebec program. Can you talk to the committee about the strength of Quebec's affordable child care program, how it's critical, and how it will benefit workers, particularly women?