Thanks, Chair.
First, I want to raise my hands to the two hours of witnesses we had this morning from Daughters of the Vote. They were awesome—such strong work. I really want to thank you for your leadership on this issue.
From the New Democratic Party, on the question of political representation, 43% of our nominated candidates were women and 40% of our MPs were women. So you're quite right about the parallel. If we get women on the ballot, then the voters choose them. That rule for the NDP is an equity rule.
The membership of the riding association cannot go to a vote to choose their candidate until they can prove that they've exhausted all options to get disabled, racialized, or indigenous persons, or women. You can hit it on any of those marks.
We still have more work to do, though. There are, we know now, 338 more, plus all the other young women who were nominated who didn't get to come here. We know what wealth there is in the country.
I'd love to hear just quickly from each of you, maybe starting with Melinda, one thing that a political party could do that would make you more likely to say yes when you get approached by your riding association, whether it's to run as trustee, provincial, federal, or anything.