Good morning and welcome to the 133rd meeting of the Standing Committee on the Status of Women. This is a televised meeting.
Today we will continue our study of the challenges faced by senior women with a focus on the factors contributing to their poverty and vulnerability.
For this meeting, we are very pleased to welcome, from l'Association québécoise de défense des droits des personnes retraitées et préretraitées, Luce Bernier, president, and Geneviève Tremblay-Racette, director. We also have, from Réseau FADOQ, Danis Prud'homme, general manager, provincial secretariat and Philippe Poirier-Monette, collective rights adviser, provincial secretariat.
I'll now turn to Luce Bernier for her opening statement. You have seven minutes. We're cutting back.
Go ahead for seven minutes, s'il vous plaît.