Thank you very much.
I would like to come back to a comment that was made earlier, because I found it a bit funny. Someone said that some members of the committee were frustrated. I am not frustrated, even though I sometimes speak a bit loudly, Madam Chair.
In fact, I am a bit tired of watching the canadian government do nothing about the situation of women. I have been working in this area since 1980, and I haven't seen any major advance since then. If there has been any, it would be because of the National Association of Women and the Law, of the CARA and of the AFAI.
I was rereading the blues of a meeting of this committee during which Mr. Cotler talked about legal aid. We have been talking about that for years. This the eighth meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women this morning. Will we ever see the light? Are there limits? What are they? Do we have any authority? Will our voices be heard?
We have heard witnesses who told us that women were poor, that we should have adressed the situation of aboriginal women years ago. Last week, the parliamentary secretary spoke about the minister. The UN made a statement about the Aboriginal people of Canada. What are we waiting for? Shall we have to make another study?
I am tired of all that. I am tired of hearing the members of the Committee on Social Development say things which go against what we were told this morning. Is this going to be mentioned somewhere?
We are here to represent women. I contributed to the creation of this committee so that Canadian women would be heard, not for Quebec to be heard. We have everything we need in Quebec. We have to make sure Canadian women are heard. It is possible I want to go too fast and you may not be there yet.
Ladies, are you going to do something so that women's groups and all the groups that fight poverty be heard? I am only asking you that question.