Thank you, Ms. Mailloux.
I would like to remind the audience that Canada ranks 60th in the world as to the representation of women in politics. Until recently, France was quite close, between 50th and 60th place. Thanks to the parity law that France passed recently, it is now in the top 15 countries. This does have an impact and studies have shown it. Ms. Mailloux talked about the study by Manon Tremblay, a political scientist at the University of Ottawa, who is known around the world for her work on this topic. All the studies show that the political parties' selection and recruitment of candidates are the key to parity.
We have talked about mentoring, training, support, and various types of assistance for women. As Ms. Mailloux said earlier, our group has been doing this for 20 years. We started at the municipal level for a very simple reason: they had fixed election dates. Now all levels of government have fixed election dates. This is very good news for democracy, but also for women because they need more time to prepare.
Because of the way we were socialized, we have been accustomed from birth to playing a role in the private sphere as opposed to the public sphere, unlike boys. That has an impact on how we react later in life.