I'm sure it's not easy. It's certainly a very powerful story. Thank you for showing that courage.
There are a few things that you said that particularly tweaked my interest. The first thing is that we are currently in a recession, but we need to be looking at this study as being long term. Yes, we have a recession and we have issues in terms of EI and jobs, but long term we know we have baby boomers retiring, we're going to have many skills shortages. I guess what I'm wanting to focus on is the root cause as we head towards this shortage of people.
You say that you absolutely want the opportunity to contribute your skills, your education. We have many immigrant women who have tremendous education skills. I know that the government has committed significant dollars in terms of supporting that foreign credential review process. I guess I would really be interested in hearing from Ms. Spencer on how she perceives that actually supporting immigrant women--especially as we get towards baby boomer retirement--and even preventing people from needing the EI system.