Madam Chair, I'd like to speak, with your permission, before you adjourn the meeting.
With regard to the evidence of a person who appeared here this afternoon, the working conditions of these individuals certainly may not be our responsibility. However, I would like to bring it to your attention that, if we didn't previously know their working conditions, we do know them now. So it is becoming our responsibility to ensure that that is at least reported to the committee responsible for those questions so that it can consider this situation. We have to do everything in our power to make those conditions change.
Earlier Mr. Maloney was talking about having positions in order to top up hours. It's being done in other sectors. In the cafeterias on Parliament Hill, employees are transferred to other locations, vacant positions are filled, and employees have regular working hours. Why does this situation exist only at the parliamentary restaurant? It's very disturbing. It isn't just women; there are men as well. These are people whom we must respect.
What can we do? Who can we appeal to? I don't know, Madam Chair, but we can't think about improving the working conditions, the living conditions and the economic security of all the women in Canada and Quebec and not improving the living conditions and economic security of women who work with us here on Parliament Hill. We can't do that. That would be very hypocritical, and I would be ashamed.
Thank you.