Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I just want to mention the important testimony that we heard earlier in the week. It became fairly clear in that testimony that there is a gender lens to this work. I have some questions around the gender lens and the study that was done and published in 2021, but also, I have to think that in 1972 they weren't really thinking about putting a gender lens on this work.
My question for Mr. Cadieux is around how the research was done. Was a gender lens applied in this study? I would be interested specifically in what workers pivoted to after the 15 weeks and 10 weeks. They said they didn't necessarily come back. What did they pivot to, and was that data disaggregated by gender?
I have a second question on the gender lens. There is a note here in the brief that the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer sent some numbers forward. We know there is a significant gap in pay in Canada as it relates to men and women, and I'm interested to know whether a gender lens was applied to that budgeting effort.