Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you all for being here. Thank you for your advocacy. It's very important.
I'd like all three of our witnesses to jump in on these questions and see if we can put some things on the record that we can work on as a committee.
First and foremost, the issue of women as caregivers, perhaps not fully engaged in paid work, is something that I'm very concerned about. The reality is that the work of women is underpaid very often. It is not valued as it should be. As a result, because of pay inequity and the lack of regard for caregivers, women very often in their senior years are faced with poverty and financial limitations.
We have a drop-out provision in terms of employment insurance and caregiving. Would a drop-out provision for CPP be a way of addressing this issue of unpaid and undervalued work?