Thank you, Madam Chair.
I am pleased to be replacing my colleague, the member for Laurentides—Labelle, on this committee. I would like to take advantage of this opportunity to express to you my best wishes for Sunday, International Women's Day. Once women will have achieved full equality, we will no longer need to celebrate that day, because it will be International Women's Day every day of the year.
My question is for Ms. Harvey. I know that she is a specialist, as all of you are. In the Charlevoix region, she participated in the launching of the Mouvement Action-Chômage de Charlevoix and in the activities of the Comité des Sans-Chemise. She has been an activist on behalf of the unemployed for several years now.
Ms. Harvey, you know that in regions such as the one I represent, contrary to urban areas, people live with the reality of seasonal work. Most of the seasonal jobs are held by women, be it in the restaurant, the hotel or the tourism industries. Given that the employment insurance system is inequitable in our view—and you too are of this opinion—, it is mostly women you suffer from this problem. I would like you to answer my question based on reality. In what ways are women more affected in those regions where there is a higher concentration of seasonal work?
I would also like to underscore a subtlety of the French language: one must not talk about seasonal workers. We are talking about people who occupy jobs in seasonal industries. It is not the unemployed who should be wearing the label “seasonal worker“; it is the industries that are seasonal.