Thank you so much.
I was just wondering if there was a response from the minister.
Thank you, Minister, for being here. Thank you to the team, as well, who are here.
Minister, when this committee was first struck, our first study was around the care economy. As a woman at this table, I was very much concerned that women were undervalued, under-represented and underpaid in the care economy. In your speaking notes, you mentioned the grey tsunami and growing the workforce. You can't go out into the community these days without meeting someone who is caring for a parent, a family member or an elderly person in their life.
I want to ask you specifically about the temporary foreign worker program, which is over-represented in the care economy. Many workers take up work in home—these are caregivers in home—including offering hospice care.
I met a woman recently. She was doing palliative care in a family home. When her client passes away, there is no grieving time. There is no time for them to get new employment. They are immediately in a precarious position and at risk of losing all of their status in Canada.
Is this something that you've heard about? Can you address the precarity of the work they do?