Thank you very much, Ms. Day and Ms. Kennedy, for joining us today and sharing not only your work practices but also your personal experiences. They certainly help shape the kind of work that we're doing here.
There's a lot of talk of leadership and fostering leadership, which is obviously critical in having women move up in organizations, and women aspire to do jobs that traditionally aren't seen as “women's jobs”. Beyond that, it's pretty clear that some structural barriers that women face prevent them from either getting into certain work or, frankly, getting out of the house to work.
Ms. Day, you alluded to some of the things that your company does to accommodate families and women with children.
I'd like to ask this question of both of you: how important is access to affordable child care to the economic prosperity and security of women in Canada?
Perhaps we could start with you, Ms. Day.