Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think option one looks quite significant in terms of covering a broad range of areas. But as broad as it is, there are things that I do believe are missing. I would like to see housing added to that list, because we organize our lives and everything in terms of families in terms of our housing. I'd like to see immigrant women and the situations they face added.
I was quite interested in the barriers to work in terms of child care. But in addition to that, there are barriers once you're in the workplace, and I think there are some things we could look at in that regard. For example, 68% of women are still in what are regarded as traditional female roles. I'd like to hear from groups such as Women in Leadership; from some businesswomen; from women who are in non-traditional roles--for example, women who are scientists, etc. I hear there's a group of construction workers who have some interesting job experience. I'd also like to add pay equity to that list, because clearly there's another report coming back in October 5.
I must tell you, Madam Chair, I am less than happy with the response that we received back from the minister. In addition to speaking to her about that, I'd like to hear from groups such as Bell Canada, CEP, CLC, and the Public Service Alliance in regard to their experiences around pay equity.
So I think this first option is very good, but it does need to be added to. We need to do a really thorough job and come up with a first-rate report that we can present to the House of Commons and really advance the cause of women.