Human Resources Committee on Feb. 14th, 2022

Evidence of meeting #9 for Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was affordable.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Briefing on the Ministerial Mandate Letters

MPs speaking

Bobby Morrissey
Stephanie Kusie
Ahmed Hussen
Matt Jeneroux
Wayne Long
Tony Van Bynen
Louise Chabot
Denis Trudel
Bonita Zarrillo
Alex Ruff
Chad Collins
Soraya Martinez Ferrada
Kamal Khera
Michael Coteau
Claude DeBellefeuille
Bob Benzen

Also speaking

Romy Bowers  President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Cliff C. Groen  Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Benefits and Integrated Services Branch, Service Canada, Department of Employment and Social Development
Annette Gibbons  Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Employment and Social Development

1:20 p.m.

Liberal

Kamal Khera Liberal Brampton West, ON

Absolutely. This is a priority for me. As you know, our government has made sure that we put in a GBA+ lens, a gender-based analysis lens, on everything we do as a government, whether it is our budgets or the investments we have made.

When you talk about the most vulnerable seniors, when you add in the intersectionality of single seniors, in particular those who are mostly women, or LGBTQ2, or minority groups, those vulnerabilities grow even more.

That is a priority for me. I can assure the honourable member that as we move forward in our programming and the work we do, we're going to ensure that is part of this work.

1:20 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Bobby Morrissey

Thank you, Madam Zarrillo, and Madam Minister, as well as the witnesses, for appearing today to answer the questions for committee members. Thank you, committee members.

With that, we will now adjourn.