Evidence of meeting #22 for Status of Women in the 40th Parliament, 2nd session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was men.
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Conservative
Lois Brown Conservative Newmarket—Aurora, ON
I ask this because to date aboriginal women have not had access to real property. So if that is going to change the balance of power for aboriginal women to be successful, I think that would be an interesting statistic to know.
Director, Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division, Statistics Canada
Generally we have it on measures of employment rates, or unemployment, or self-employment, or income and household income. So all of that can be looked at in different ways.
Conservative
Lois Brown Conservative Newmarket—Aurora, ON
Sure, but if a person has access to assets, then they have the right to go to a bank and borrow, because they have real property they can show as a real asset. I'd be interested to know any information you can come up with on that. That would be helpful.
Thank you.
NDP
The Vice-Chair NDP Irene Mathyssen
Thank you very much. Of course we would appreciate that.
I thank you for being here today, and we will prevail upon the government to provide that funding you need in order to create the statistics and information that would be of benefit to all of us.
Thank you very much.
[Proceedings continue in camera]