Thank you.
Ms. Armour, I live in a community in the Alberni Valley on Vancouver Island where one-third of the children are living in poverty. In fact, we have a teenage pregnancy rate that's 300% above the provincial average in B.C. as a result. It's really a crisis situation.
You noted that women need economic security in order to leave situations of domestic violence. We have high domestic violence in our community. Local shelters have noted that when women leave an abuser, they often move into poverty, which sometimes forces them to return to a situation of violence.
Do you agree with a paid domestic leave policy, so that women have time to leave abuse while being economically supported?