Thanks very much.
Unpaid work has been a core challenge in the Canadian economy historically. When I worked at Statistics Canada, there was an entire division set up to investigate and quantify the value of unpaid work. Quite frankly, we could do with even more information, because funding was reduced for that activity at Statistics Canada, so the available data is more limited.
How we can support unpaid workers is a real question. One of the ways we could do it is by providing some sort of tax incentive or subsidy to caregivers in Canadian households. The real challenge from a fiscal point of view is how you design the policy so that it doesn't get gamed. In other words, what you want to do is subsidize caregiving that's going to actually take place and is being done at a high level. The challenge is going to be designing the policy so that you get the desired impact of increasing the contribution of the unpaid workers and at the same time increasing the productivity of workers in the economy, the $1.3 billion of lost productivity that Georgina was referring to.
We definitely need to think about how we provide more effective and better support to unpaid workers. I certainly wouldn't rule out the idea of some sort of fiscal measure to help support unpaid workers. The challenge is really around designing the program. I also think we need better data in the field in order to get the optimal outcome.