Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much for being here today and bringing all this expertise. I truly appreciate it.
I'll start with a question from the notes that were provided by our researchers, and I want to thank our analyst and researchers. As always, they've provided excellent support documents.
In these documents there's a section that talks about women in the corporate world. Essentially, despite the fact that more women are entering corporate office positions, only about 17% reach any level of management, and of those, only 6% have actually led companies. In terms of climbing the ladder, the higher the ladder the fewer women.
I wonder if Statistics Canada or anyone has tried to investigate that to determine that, and does it suggest that the glass ceiling still exists?