Thank you for your question and your context. I know that FCM is keenly working towards grappling with the data component and making sure that in the next cycle we're intentional about what we're looking for and how we can then extrapolate from the experience of women and use that in a meaningful way.
When I think about what we've done thus far and how we're looking at diversity, we're intentional about making sure that we have the voices that are not at the table from a multiculturalism perspective. We just completed Diverse Voices for Change, which is an initiative to get indigenous, racialized, and immigrant women, who are about 2% of the elected population right now, more engaged at the local level. It's also to make sure they have tools and to make sure that in their communities they're aware that the system structure of politics at the municipal level wants to engage with them, wants to know what the barriers are, wants to know how enabling through tool kits strengthens their capacity to step forward and put themselves out there, so to speak.
We've just gone through two or three years of that iteration, so in the next election this fall we'll be able to see how effective this process was and gather data to see if this is working. and if it's not working, whether we need to tweak an entire system or just components of what we currently have.