Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much for coming here and presenting this information.
I want to pick up on what you were just speaking about in regard to nature of employment and labour market conditions. I'd like to mine that a little more fully.
Quite frankly, I'm troubled by the statement that women make that decision in regard to employment, because some women do not make the decision. It's something external: there's no child care, they have no support system, or they're caregiving for elderly parents. Any number of things impacts their ability to go out and seek that job.
I think it's important that when we look at unemployment rates among women and the impact of not being able to access benefits because they don't have enough hours, we need to be much broader in regard to our approach and not just say that they made a choice, because I know from many women in my community that they aren't given a choice.
I wonder if you could expand on what you were saying about labour market conditions. I want to be really clear there.