Madam Chair, I will finish with a comment.
In Canada, there is no family policy. I think that as members of the Standing Committee on the Status of women, we should make an exhaustive study of the employment insurance system effect on women's living conditions.
All the material we have read up to now show beyond any doubt that the employment insurance program is inadequate as far as women are concerned. We should recall that 48 billion dollars have disappeared from the employment insurance coffers.
Last year, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation had a surplus of 2 billion dollars. We could simply have shared that money and offered social housing adapted to people with a disability, to immigrants and seniors.
Whether they speak of equalization or about tax disparity, the provinces ask for a fairer distribution of wealth.
Poverty among women is a multifaceted problem, and if we want to study each of those facets this morning, I can tell you it will take some time. If the committee want to do a good job, he will have to adress each element of this problem and ask the government to do something about it.
I have been working on the status of women for 13 years and we have been talking about it for 13 years.Groups like yours should flash a red light and demand that something be done.
I thank you for having been so frank this morning.