Mr. Speaker, the Canada Labour Congress has just released a study on women's work.
The study shows, using OECD statistics-as you know, the OECD represents major industrialized countries throughout the world-that Canada is the industrialized country with the highest percentage of women in low-paying jobs, after Japan. The report tells us that only 20 per cent of women have full-time jobs paying more than $30,000 annually. In other words, poverty has a gender. Poverty is female.
My question is directed to the Acting Prime Minister. Does this government, which promised not to touch social programs, realize today that the consequences of its decisions are that millions of women are doomed to even greater poverty?