Good morning, everyone. My BlackBerry tells me that it is 8:45 a.m. So let us begin the meeting. We have quite a full schedule today and I am very pleased to see that.
Welcome.
This is the 35th meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women.
This is our last meeting on the economic leadership and prosperity of Canadian women. Without further delay, I will introduce the witnesses who will be appearing before us today. I will proceed in the same order as on the notice of meeting.
We have Danièle Chouinard, who is the director general of the organization known as Com'Femme. We have Harriett McLachlan, who is president of the board of directors of the organization known as Canada Without Poverty, and Hodan Nalayeh, who is appearing as an individual and as executive producer of Integration TV. Welcome.
By videoconference, we are in contact with Jill Earthy, who is the British Columbia and Yukon director for Futurpreneur Canada and with Fariba Pacheleh, the president of the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology. Welcome to you too.
Each of you will have ten minutes for your presentation. That will be followed by a period for questions.
Let us start with Ms. Chouinard, from Com'Femme.