Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my hon. colleague for the question. It is a pleasure to work with her on committee.
There have been tremendous cuts to women's groups, to Status of Women, a huge reduction in the service centres.
We could be tackling the major issues affecting women, like violence against women. We absolutely need a national action plan to end the violence. We need an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women.
We need to tackle pay equity. It is unconscionable that women in Canada earn 81 cents for every $1 a man earns. There was a 2005 study by the Royal Bank of Canada, saying we are losing $156 billion annually because of the pay equity gap.