Thank you, Madam Chair. I'd like to make a brief comment, and then I will turn it over to my colleague.
Minister, in response to Ms. Mathyssen, you said that your Government had done more in six months and that you will not resign. It's quite true that your Government did take concrete and immediate steps as early as January 2006: no more money for Quebec for daycare services, no Canadian daycare services, no legislation on equity, a $5 million cut in the budget of Status of Women Canada, abolition of the Court Challenges Program and, contrary to what the Committee was asking, no increase in funding for the Women's Program.
You're right: your Government did take immediate and concrete steps to deal a blow to the status of women in Quebec and Canada.
I'll turn it over to my colleague now.