I want to welcome everyone to meeting number 10 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House Order of September 23, 2020. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. The webcast will always show the person speaking rather than the entirety of the committee.
In order to have an orderly meeting, let's talk about a few rules.
Members and witnesses may speak in the official language of their choice. Interpretation services are available, and at the bottom of your screen you can choose “floor”, “English” or “French”.
Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name. If you're on a video conference, please click on the microphone icon to unmute your mike. For those in the room, your microphone will be controlled as normal by the proceedings and verification officer.
I offer a reminder that all comments by members and witnesses should be addressed through the chair.
Now we'll go into our panel on unpaid work.
Today as witnesses we have Andrea Doucet, who is a professor and Canada research chair in gender, work and care, and from the Vanier Institute of the Family, we have Nora Spinks, who is the president and CEO.
Each of you will have five minutes to make your opening remarks and after that we'll go into our round of questions.
Andrea, we'll start with you for five minutes.