Thank you.
I've had the incredible honour in my life to work with amazing women. I was raised by a very strong, wonderful, intelligent mother, and I married an incredible woman. Then in my career, I worked for the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia. I was an entrepreneur for many years, but I went to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and the supervisor of my unit was an incredibly talented woman whom I was honoured to work for. Politically, I was honoured to be the parliamentary secretary for Rona Ambrose who was the minister of the environment back in 2006, and now she's our interim leader who will be stepping down over the next couple of weeks. I've been incredibly honoured to work with intelligent, strong, capable women. I really haven't experienced the discrimination against women in my life, and I've been honoured to work for talented women.
I'd like to focus on women who choose to leave their career to raise a family and now they find themselves having fulfilled that part of their life, that choice, and they want to enter back into their career. How do we help those women who need to refresh their talents and get up to speed? There are many women, and I've been honoured to be able to employ some of them in my role as a member of Parliament, who maybe didn't see themselves as being able to get back into a career, but now are back, because of encouragement. Women live longer than men. They are incredibly talented. How do we help women to get back into their career of choice? What are the barriers that they'll be facing and how can we help them?