Good morning, everyone. I'll call to order our 11th meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. If everything goes as planned, this will be the last meeting for this session, and we will all get off and have, I hope, a good summer rest and some time in our ridings.
We have 40 or 45 minutes before the minister comes this morning. It's very important for us to look at the work plan we have. Our analysts have put it together in a couple of sections. We could deal with, let's say, the economic security issues first, trying to break it down into doable pieces of things that we might be able to accomplish, and be able to submit some sort of a report, say, by Christmas on what we have done in the next term.
They have suggested that we need to focus on one of these areas, as far as the economic security section is concerned. We'll deal with the other section after. But initially we need to narrow down quite clearly what we want to accomplish in pieces, where the whole broad area is far too large, and if we were here for four years, we might be able to spend four years on it.
Effectively, what are the roadblocks that women are facing to prevent them from being confident, secure, and financially secure? There are various areas here. So if we focus on the economic security, what particular part should we focus on in the fall so that we can accomplish something between then and December?
Ms. Smith.