Status of Women Committee on Nov. 19th, 2009

Evidence of meeting #41 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 retirement.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Women and Pension Security

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Clerk of the Committee Ms. Angela Crandall

Claudette Carbonneau President, Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN)

Danielle Casara Vice-President, Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec

Monica Townson Consultant and Research Associate, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Marie-Josée Naud Union Advisor, Education Department, Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec

Nathalie Joncas Actuary, Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN)

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Bloc

Nicole Demers Bloc Laval, QC

Thank you.

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Conservative

The Acting Chair Conservative Dave Van Kesteren

Go ahead.

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Bloc

Nicole Demers Bloc Laval, QC

Oh! All right.

Mr. Chairman, our witnesses on November 24 were supposed to be Ms. Ducharme and Ms. Marquis, who are with the Public Service Alliance of Canada, but they are unable to attend. They have asked the Clerk if they could appear on December 1 instead. I believe that when that date rolls around, we will already have started to write our report. And we do want to table it fairly quickly. I believe their testimony would certainly be very helpful, but I am not sure how we could arrange to hear them.

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Conservative

The Acting Chair Conservative Dave Van Kesteren

I will confer with the clerk for a second. Is it okay with the committee that on December 1 we move the Canadian....

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Bloc

Nicole Demers Bloc Laval, QC

I'm talking about Ms. Ducharme and Ms. Marquis from the Public Service Alliance.

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Conservative

The Acting Chair Conservative Dave Van Kesteren

Do we have consensus?