Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. Indeed, I visited the Cookshire Tex company, before it closed; it was a textile company. The equipment was in excellent condition and very clean. Most workers in the textile industry are men, because it is hard work that requires physical strength. However, some women are able to do it.
As for clothing, it is made by women who are mostly immigrants and who do not speak French or English. For them, it is easier to come to live here and to work in factories. These women who come to this country are so used to work that they are not a drag on the public purse. They are still penalized. They have barriers. They are getting older. The POWA, which the Bloc Québécois wants to be re-introduced, should be used to teach these women another language, such as the official languages of Canada and Quebec, French and English, and to give them training, because the majority of these women are illiterate.
In doing so, we would really help these women to get out of the poverty trap.