Thank you.
I want to thank you, Minister, for being here today.
One of the things we've heard throughout this study is that there is a link between gender-based violence or intimate partner violence and poverty. Despite progress, there is still a persistent wage gap in our country. There are many reasons for this.
We know that women working in jobs with the same education level and same skill set as their male counterparts are making less. We know that women primarily have more responsibility in terms of caregiving. We know that women have less access to capital. This persists throughout their lives, and when they retire, because they're not paying as much into pensions, we see more poverty among senior women. This makes women vulnerable throughout their lifetime.
I was wondering if you could tell us a bit about what we are doing and what you are doing to address the gender wage gap in Canada.