I understand that it's for future discussion. The questions asked of witnesses should not be restricted to seniors' poverty. It really is a broad issue.
Actually, I want to go to the core, and I know that wasn't the question asked and you didn't address it, but I suspect, Ms. Jacobs, that you do have some of the answers. The core reason for poverty among senior women, in general, but also women in native and aboriginal communities, has to do with the economic costs incurred by women, in terms of their labour force attachment to take on greater roles of unpaid caregiving.
To what extent are women in the aboriginal and native communities affected with respect to having to take non-standard work, part-time work as opposed to full-time? Or is it the lack of access to training or education that would give them the kinds of skills or the kinds of jobs...depending on whether they live?
Basically I'm looking at the core reasons for women not being able to have access to the labour force in any consistent way, which ultimately also affects their poverty level when they're seniors.
Could you give us a bit of an idea of what the major determinants would be, in your view? I mentioned non-standard work and education, but I'm sure there are others that you may expand upon.