Thank you, Madam Chairman.
Thank you for your very touching testimony, Mrs. Ngjelina.
First you introduced yourself as a woman, but also, second, as a mother. The one can't be detached from the other. Most women are mothers, and they must not be penalized for that. The government of Canada must be seen as a government that recognizes that women bear children and that, to a large degree, they are responsible for caring for them. Both Ms. Spencer and Ms. Ngjelina say that immigrant women are at a disadvantage with respect to employment insurance, mainly because they hold temporary jobs when they arrive in the country and are not considered as re-entering the job market.
Ms. Spencer, you talked about the report entitled Improving the Economic Security of Women: Time to Act and about Recommendation 13, which concerns employment insurance criteria. What criteria should be changed to improve the plight of immigrant women?