Evidence of meeting #52 for Status of Women in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was quebec.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Prof. Andrea Doucet
Thank you.
I'm a qualitative researcher, so the statistics tend to fall away from me.
All I would say is that we look at the numbers and we look at how in Quebec the number of low-income mothers earning less than $30,000 a year are accessing parental leave benefits at a much higher rate than mothers in the rest of Canada.
I think the numbers tell us that a lot of women—
Conservative
Karen Vecchio Conservative Elgin—Middlesex—London, ON
But what's holding women back from obtaining 16 weeks of full-time work in a 52-week period to make those contributions?
Prof. Andrea Doucet
I go back to the question about very low-income women, women who have mental health issues, the populations in our country who are not able to be in full-time work over a long period of time.
I don't know the answer to the question, but I know that women are not meeting that 600 hours—
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
I'm really sorry, but we're over our time for our meeting today.
I want to thank both of our witnesses for very intelligent and very excellent input to our discussion today. If you have things that you want to send as a result of the discussion, please feel free to send those to the clerk.
Thank you to the committee, and we will see you again on Thursday.
The meeting is adjourned.