Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much all of you for being here. You are extremely inspirational. This even makes me want to be 20 again and to choose another career. I didn't even know I could work in the mining industry, and that seems very interesting. I think that making yourself known, meeting women and making what you do known, as you are doing today, is a good way to proceed.
You know, in my constituency, there is an organization called Options non traditionnelles, whose mandate and practices are to establish contacts with people in the community, in the primary and secondary schools, in the community agencies, by finding models like you in the community. In that way, young women can see them again on other occasions, recognize them and, consequently, recognize themselves in them.
I think that meeting young people, talking about your occupation and being seen can definitely be one of the solutions. What we see in our lives are teachers who are often women, school teachers and nurses. We very rarely meet women engineers or police officers in our lives or even in the media. Lastly, women police officers are now increasingly involved in the communities, which can change things.
I think one of the major problems is work-life balance. You're right in saying that it isn't because there are women in a male environment that things change as quickly as we would like. You who have experienced everything you can experience with regard to work-life balance, what measures would you put in place, now that you are experiencing it and know it, if you had any to suggest?
I know this isn't easy even in our occupation as members of Parliament. The Bloc québécois has put in place procedures for enabling women—and men, of course, fathers—to be with their children during the children's break week.
What measures would make young women want to go into this kind of occupation? In spite of everything, these are occupations that are well paid and offer quite good working conditions. What measures would encourage young women to want to go into these occupations with a passion for this kind of work? It takes that too.
Yes, I think that women who work in these occupations have to be present in the community. However, what work-life balance measures would you suggest?