I am ready. Thank you, Chair.
I might have missed it, but I know you recognized MP Cormier as being online. I don't think you noted that I'm also online today. I wanted witness Potter to know that I am online today.
Witness Potter, I really appreciate your introduction of the need for stability for these workers in what can be a very unstable environment.
There are two areas of modernizing EI that I'm particularly interested in. One is stabilization in natural disasters—you were talking about how natural disasters and global events can affect your industry. Second is the opportunity to modernize EI for women—women in seasonal work, maternity leave, care for family and these sorts of things.
I wonder if you wouldn't mind sharing some of the opportunities to modernize that you've seen in EI, with the changing climate and with the global unrest.
Perhaps you could also share a bit about what women who speak to you have experienced as seasonal workers in Canada.