Thank you very much.
First I'd like to apologize for stepping out for a few moments. My community is going through mass layoffs, and there was a big community meeting at home to try to deal with the situation.
I am particularly interested in the way question 33 connects with advocacy work. In my last two years, since having been elected—and prior to that as well—I have been shocked to see the attack on women's advocacy organizations.
I'm particularly interested in how, perhaps, the facts about women, and certainly, in a way, the numbers that represent the voices of women, may relate to advocacy around issues like child care or elder care or pay equity or employment insurance or whatever it might be.
I'd also like to note that sitting in the House of Commons, where only 21% of us are women, it seems to me more urgent than ever to make sure that women are counted somewhere.
I'd like to perhaps begin by asking Kathleen Lahey, and others who may have thoughts on it, about the connection between question 33 and advocacy.