Status of Women Committee on March 5th, 2009

Evidence of meeting #7 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 unemployed.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Consequences and Effects the Current Employment Insurance (EI) Programs have on Women in Canada

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Danie Harvey Representative, Conseil national des chômeurs et chômeuses

Barbara Byers Executive Vice-President, Canadian Labour Congress

Ken Battle President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy

Micheline Dépatie Representative, Conseil national des chômeurs et chômeuses

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

I would like to thank everybody for coming.

Thank you very much, Ms. Harvey and Ms. Dépatie.

I wanted to thank you very much. I know that some of you put in a lot of time and effort and—

12:55 p.m.

President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy

Ken Battle

Money

12:55 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal Hedy Fry

--as Mr. Battle said, a fairly large amount of money to get your data in. So I want to thank you very much for coming and for spending this length of time with us.

Now I need a motion to adjourn.

Ms. Davidson so moves.

Thank you all. The meeting is adjourned.