Mr. Speaker, Women's History Month gives us an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of Canadian women, and since this year's theme is about women at work, I want to highlight the integral role that women play in shaping our economy.
I regularly meet with women entrepreneurs in my riding of Hamilton Mountain, like Brigitte Soares of Apostrophe Accounting, Julie Bobiak of the Lukaya Café, Julie DiNardo of Gleam Smile Centre and the Montague sisters, who founded BLK Owned, which helps uplift and promote other local businesses.
Because of these conversations, I know how important the government's initiatives have been. Our national child care strategy has helped more women enter the workforce than ever before. Our women's entrepreneurship strategy is providing loans, investments and a critical knowledge hub. I believe that measures like these are due to the fact that we have gender parity in cabinet and Canada's first-ever woman finance minister.
While Conservatives just keep hurling meaningless slogans, on this side of the House we are actually getting things done.