Thank you very much for the question. Thank you for your support of this bill at first and second reading.
It is absolutely critical. Not only can governments not do it alone, but women can't do it alone. Men have to stand by the side of women on each aspect of this very complex issue that we have before us. It does go all the way back to elementary school education.
When I was first approached by one of the co-inspirators of the bill, the question was whether we could do something in the field of education to put gender equality week into primary and secondary school programming. That was a provincial issue, so I wasn't able to address it directly as a federal member of Parliament.
The discussion then evolved to creating this project before you, gender equality week. By declaring this week, we can indeed inspire. We can't prescribe it, but we can certainly inspire education to come online during that one week and make sure that all the way from the elementary level onwards, there are projects and focused discussions during that week on the issue of gender equality. Starting at a young age is very important.
There are other challenges. I alluded in my discussion to economic opportunity. I think that in itself is an opportunity to bring men into the discussion in a substantively focused way. The financial industry itself is male dominated. Recognizing the economic opportunity to create pay equity, for example, globally in the trillions of dollars, really is one vehicle by which to broaden the conversation to bring men to the table.
Those are just two aspects. There are many others.