Ms. Clarke, Ms. Turner and Ms. McDiarmid.
Ms. McDiarmid, you talked earlier about harassment and the fact that it might cause problems for women, which would discourage them from continuing to work in those trades. In your organizations, do you provide micro-credit to women so that they can start their own businesses?
I say that because, in Laval, we started giving micro-credit. Women learned trades in plumbing, electricity, masonry, and construction. They were not comfortable with working on site and they started small businesses. Now, they are putting together a directory of construction companies run by women.
As it happens, women who live alone, like me, are very happy to have access to those women because they feel a lot more comfortable telling them what they want in the house when they come to do repairs. With them, we do not feel inferior. We feel that we can speak openly and we will not be looked down on by the person who comes to do the repairs.
Is that something you have thought about?