We had little time to prepare, because we didn't find out until last week that we were to appear before you today. We could have provided much broader coverage. We tried to cover the essential issues concerning women, particularly women heads of single-parent families.
Obviously, if we want to fight the poverty of women heads of single-parent families, particularly the poorest of them, the minimum wage has to be increased in Quebec and in Canada as a whole. That would enable them to get out of poverty. People and young women increasingly have higher education levels, which is another way of getting out of poverty. To get a good job, you need a good education. However, there also has to be a reasonable minimum wage because, as Lorraine mentioned earlier, more than 60% of people working for minimum wage are non-unionized women. Being non-unionized means that working conditions are not very good. In that sense, this is important for us. These are demands that we're making in Quebec, but increasing the minimum wage could clearly benefit all Canadian women. That's a measure that we think is essential.