Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses for their presentations. They are very helpful to us in our study.
I just want to go back a bit to the study here. We're talking about barriers to women in politics. We're talking about recruitment challenges. This issue of women in politics transcends all political parties. Some of the comments here are about a specific party, or not, or a member. I just want to get some specifics, because we really believe that we're not necessarily talking about merit, the merit of women in politics. The women MPs who are in the House are fabulous. The cabinet ministers are very competent, but we still have 26%, or 27% now since the few by-elections have taken place. We are still 60th in the world.
I don't understand the line of merit. Women MPs are very qualified, past and present. I want to bring it back to the study itself.
Ms. Grey, your experience is extensive. I remember, as a high school student, very attentively watching you on your bike and being the first Reform Party member.
I want to focus on the nomination. Are you suggesting that there is really nothing that a parliamentary committee here could recommend to the government to make changes in legislation, legislation that is in place for nominations at Elections Canada, or the party should not change because it is a fair playing field? Are there any recommendations that you might have tried in the past and weren't able to do that we should be looking at right now?