Ms. Smallman, you talked a lot about the care economy. Long-term care, obviously right now, is a huge issue. My provincial counterpart in London—Fanshawe has put forward a time to care act provincially, and it's interesting that it proposes to set a minimal standard of four hours of care per day per resident. In order to meet that standard, they're estimating that the Province of Ontario alone has to hire about 10,000 more care workers, nurses, PSWs. We've heard about the poor pay, the bad working conditions, the amount of time that these workers are expected not only to work but also to give additional time because so many of them are women and fall into that category of unpaid care time. How could the federal government, investing in that care economy, in universal affordable access to long-term care programming, help that imbalanced gender equality situation and the pressure on women mainly?
On November 3rd, 2020. See this statement in context.