Thank you, Chair, and thank you to all the witnesses for appearing today.
I'm going to take a different approach. We had Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters in earlier this week. They recently finished a survey on women in STEM and women in skilled trades and why they don't stay in the manufacturing sector. The number one reason they don't stay is the sexism in the workplace and what they have to deal with. It was really an interesting report. They provided us with copies of it. They have five pillars of how to encourage more women to be involved and to stay involved. We need to increase the women in STEM and we need to provide mentorship. However, none of them addressed the issue of the sexism in the workplace, which is the reason people leave.
You have a lot of the same types of directives, of increasing the number of women in STEM and mentorship, but if women aren't getting involved because of what they face in the workplace, shouldn't we be dealing with that problem first?