Thanks, Chair.
To Jane Stinson, I want to pick up your theme of saying very forcefully that there are structural barriers to women participating in the economy and that this is not just about women's choice.
I'm elected in British Columbia, and even getting to employment opportunities is a very strong theme in my own riding of Nanaimo—Ladysmith. People from the Stz'uminus reserve don't have any public transit. They can't get to the jobs that are there. It's especially tragically evident in northern B.C., in relation to the Highway of Tears. Women are hitchhiking, and our indigenous women particularly are killed.
Then we also have the problem in urban centres, where particularly we hear that women with disabilities who don't have accessible public transit cannot physically get to the jobs that are there.
Can you talk about this government focusing its investment more on public transit to give women the full opportunity to be participants in the workforce?