Thank you, MP Roberts. I'm sorry to hear that the hot flashes are continuing. You're in very good company; let me just say that.
There are four recommendations that come out of our very robust research.
One is that we need to measure this. Canada has no national data following menopause symptoms and work and earnings over time. The Menopause Foundation survey was excellent, but it was a single snapshot in time. We need to build this into our Stats Canada surveys.
The second thing is that we need to close the gap for precarious workers so that sick time and income supports reach women in those contract and self-employed roles, because menopause symptoms follow them too.
Third, we need to name menopause explicitly in the federal workplace and human rights guidance so that federally regulated employers understand their duty to accommodate.
The last thing I'd recommend—and this is very in line with Dr. Desautels—is to invest in care, including mental health care and menopause-informed primary care so that women can get their symptoms treated before they get back to work. Again, vasomotor symptoms are very important, but what we heard and what we see in the data is that it's the cognitive symptoms—word finding, attention, brain fog and mental health—that seem to contribute the most to those workplace impacts.