Thank you very much, Mr. Thompson.
I would like to ask the witnesses a simple question.
We heard from Statistics Canada that they could collect particular data, such as the data Ms. Mathyssen and Ms. Neville mentioned, but that they aren't asked to collect that data. I think what this committee is trying to get to the nub of is that you cannot do good gender-based analysis if you don't have disaggregated data, not merely between men and women, but if we're talking about women, let's say, women by region, women by employability, self-employability, etc. I think because women have children or because women have children and an elderly parent they may not be able to work more than part-time, and they don't ever qualify. They're always behind the eight ball, because by the very nature of being a woman they often meet these challenges.
It might be helpful if some of that information could be collected. It would help to look at, for instance, in the case of weeks of work or hours of work, which one would be the better way to judge and whether there should be a built-in ability to deal with that difference.
I think we would like to leave you with the concept of that data that isn't there. We cannot answer some of the questions because the data isn't there. Maybe the collecting of that data might be very interesting, if you can do that in the future.
Thank you very much for coming.
We'll suspend for a minute or two.