Thank you, Madam Chair.
It's great to be back with my colleagues in this really thought-provoking committee, I must say. I've enjoyed the spring session and I find the subject matter to be of extreme interest.
I share the view that option one on the economic security issues is the route we should follow. And I appreciate that it is going to be very difficult to fit all of the subject matter into this fall session.
Before Madame Mourani made some good comments with respect to the trafficking issue, I was going to suggest on the economic side of things that while we had good presentations on the issue of child care--and that was one of our meetings, I noticed, to be enveloped into that one segment--the topics around immigrant women and housing might be better in that slot, considering we've already covered some ground in that area. I would agree, for example, that there is a strong emphasis on senior women here when in fact economic security issues cut across the spectrum. That's a suggestion, perhaps, if we're pressed for time.
On the issue of trafficking--and again this picks up on some of the themes that we really didn't get into too much in the spring around violence against women--perhaps if we can deal with only one subject matter, we should concentrate on that and try to develop a strong report. We delved into the violence issue somewhat in the spring session, but this would give us a little bit more time to get in-depth. The economic security topics could then be pushed off.
I like the work plan, but I get the point that it's going to be difficult. We know that we have ended up with meeting cancellations. Given the breadth of witnesses and the ability to get witnesses scheduled, I know it can be difficult. On the other hand, if we don't have enough, that doesn't preclude the possibility of bringing in witnesses on economic security issues as well. In other words, we'd still be advancing that topic through the fall session when we can, but we'd put our objective and set our sights on a strong report on that one topic, on human trafficking.