Thank you, Madam Chair.
It's a real pleasure for me to be here. I'd like to start by thanking our three witnesses for their terrific testimony from such different areas of women's lives. I think it's worth it for all of us to pause and reflect on how important this conversation is. Also, at least for me, it's shocking that we're still having these conversations.
My mother graduated from U of A law school in 1970. I remember being so proud of her as a pioneering Canadian professional and feminist, but really being confident as her daughter that these kinds of conversations, which are very familiar to me from my mom's kitchen, would not be ones that I would be having. I think our generation, the women around this table, have to make sure our daughters don't have these conversations 20 or 30 years from now.
Ms. McDonald spoke about how progress can happen, but that it's very slow. I think we collectively have to decide to speed it up.
I have a few questions.
Ms. McDonald, I was interested in your comments about women on boards. I would love to know your view on how strong the nudge from legislation should be. What's your view on quotas for boards, on a comply-or-explain kind of policy? Is there a country that you think gets this right?