I want to flip the discussion a little to immigrant women who have been really impacted: the low-wage workers who are highly skilled but whose skills are not being recognized because the work itself is undervalued. We're talking about care workers, many of whom are coming in with nursing qualifications and other qualifications, working as personal support workers or home care workers, but in conditions that make the work very difficult to sustain. This situation has also rendered these workers more vulnerable to not just job loss but also to infection.
We heard stories from the long-term care sector about workers who ended up out of work because they had to confine their work to one facility, because they were forced to work part-time, because the standards are so low and the job quality so poor, because the commitment to investing in decent jobs is not there in the industry.
What we hope to accomplish with the care economy commission is to look, really, at the quality of these jobs. These jobs are overwhelmingly populated by racialized women and immigrant women.
I think, also—