Thank you, Madam Chair.
Madam Minister, you talked at length about increasing the prosperity for women, but we know that if women are going to be free from violence and have that economic security, there has to be affordable housing and there has to be child care. Yet your government has made changes to Status of Women Canada. You ended advocacy, which I would suggest is leadership; you ended funding to the National Association of Women and the Law; you're ending the funding for numerous groups, like CRIAW. There is no child care. In fact, you talked about this tiny little increment in terms of child care benefits. It's $3.25 a week, $168 a year, and it doesn't create a single child care space.
All of these things add up to a lack of equity for women. If you're so committed to that equality that you talk about, why have you allowed this systemic attack on women to continue from one budget to the next, and even within your own ministry?