Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you both for coming here today. I really appreciate your coming here. This is an issue that we keep following up on, year after year, and it's great that we shed some light on it.
In 2014, the Canadian government gave five recommendations to the Iranian government, and they were all rejected. I'm going to read one of the recommendations:
Take legislative and administrative measures to remove legal restrictions and social barriers to women’s equal participation in the work force and access to education and government decision-making positions;
This is one of the recommendations that was rejected. Can you tell us what Canadian parliamentarians can do to encourage women's equal participation in Iran and how some women's advancements have been hindered under this regime?