I would appreciate that. Over and over again we are finding that this connection to community--the research and support that parliamentarians receive from the community--is no longer there. It feels very much like we're in a vacuum sometimes.
I was looking at some articles, and I chanced across an article by the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence. A farm woman was quoted in that article, and it reads:
There is very little support in terms of managing off-farm jobs, on-farm jobs and family. [It's] the triple role that women play, the care giver role that they also play for their family, but also their parents, and the whole home care issue where farm women may have to be the ones who are supposed to provide care to others that are very near and dear to them. There's also the issue of respite care. If somebody is coming home early from the hospital, how do you take time off from work to be there? [Another problem is] a lot of kids are left home alone while women are out in the field and they're too young.
That whole issue of rural child care was something I encountered as an MPP. It led me to wonder about farm accidents. That is another reality in terms of trying to juggle all of these things and manage when there are no supports like EI.
I wonder if you could comment on the accurate portrayal. Is this indeed accurate? In terms of when someone is injured on the farm, what happens? Is there some support there, like EI or CPP?