Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here.
I'm sitting in. I'm not regularly part of this committee, but I'm pleased to be here.
I'm a woman who has been in non-traditional roles. I was doing a music degree, but I worked for an engineering company full-time while I was doing it. I worked in the drafting office, which was very non-traditional, and in that time I had to do a great deal of work with construction companies, learning how to do quantity take-offs for bids. Since that time, I've been self-employed for most of my adult life in some non-traditional roles. I would be very happy to be part of those discussions in the future, because I think I can bring to that discussion some of my experiences.
Minister, you talked earlier about the discussions you were having in the federal, provincial, and territorial meetings. Ms. Neville got started on this question but ran out of time. Could you tell the committee what those discussions entailed? Were you seeing and hearing of women in those discussions who were filling non-traditional roles? Could you just elaborate on that discussion?