To address your last point, I highlighted for you the gender gap report. It's actually the World Economic Forum gender gap report, which highlighted Canada in women's economic participation, in which we saw significant changes in Canada. So it doesn't have to be me that you believe. I'm happy to provide you with a copy of that report.
Of course, our country and our government is focused on the economic crisis--that's been our number one priority since we became the government--and working to implement the economic action plan. We are focused on all Canadians, and of course women are a part of that. They are more than 53% of the population now, so they do benefit from that significantly.
On pension income-splitting, you talked about senior women. The pension income-splitting that our government introduced was well received.
On immigrant women, you're quite right, they do face significant barriers. They face a lot of barriers.
Since we're still in the 16 Days of Activism to End Violence against Women, I think it's a good opportunity for me to highlight for members around the table that today I made an announcement alongside all the provinces and territories, the provincial representatives for the shelter networks in each of the provinces, and including aboriginal representation. We announced a new partnership today to ensure that they will have a national voice. They're forming a national group, and I'm going to be funding a project that's going to allow them to train each other and share best practices, with a strong focus on immigrant women.