Thank you, and thank you to our guests.
I'd like to start by acknowledging some people's presence. We acknowledged some people in the audience earlier, but we also have a number of folks in our audience today who are students from McGill University, and they're women. There are 35, I believe, who are here.
First of all, it's good to see them here, but it also brings to my mind an example. We have 35 young girls. We know that the female-to-male proportion in university education is shifting quite dramatically. I really believe that the world is going to be their oyster as the baby boomers leave some of these jobs. We have a recession right now, but ultimately these young students are going to have many opportunities.
We are certainly concerned. We talked about the different pattern of women's work, and we perhaps need to look at women who find themselves in particularly difficult situations, as happened with Madame Demers' mom, but has there been a lot of work done in terms of the future? I know the contributions women are making into RRSPs are starting to increase more and more, so I think the issue we have right now is perhaps going to be a very different issue, and maybe not an issue, 20 years from now.
I'd appreciate some comments.