Thank you.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here.
I'm going to start with Ms. Al-khooly. Thank you, especially, for being here. I know I've talked to your group before, Visions of Science. It's a group or organization that attempts to encourage people of colour—women of colour, especially—to get involved in STEM research positions and education.
I'm wondering if we can back up from the pay gap and go to the gap in terms of getting these racialized women into this field. In one of our last studies, we had testimony from Dr. Andrade from the University of Toronto, and she said:
Our current system is a massive filter. It's a filter that is filtering out people as a function of their finances, not as a function of their excellence and not as a function of the likelihood that they might be the next...Nobel Prize laureate. We are filtering out people who can't take the mental load of living in poverty....
She went on very eloquently about those challenges that people have.
I'm wondering if you could maybe take a couple of minutes to talk about what Visions of Science does to encourage people who have those challenges ahead of them to get involved in research.