Good afternoon to everyone and welcome to the 33th meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. Today, we will continue our study on improving economic prospects for Canadian girls.
Before we begin, I have to announce that the witness who was supposed to testify at 4:30 unfortunately could not make it. Ms. Jessica Danforth, from the Native Youth Sexual Health Network, will therefore not be with us today. So the committee will end its meeting earlier, that is, at 4:30. In fact, Ms. Danforth is at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. We will try to invite her again at a future meeting.
For the first part of our meeting, we have, via video conference, from Halifax in Nova Scotia, Ms. Tricia Robertson from Techsploration, and Ms. Margaret-Ann Armour, the President of the Board for the Canadian Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology.
Ms. Ashton, you wanted to speak?