Status of Women committee  I apologize. We will have to interrupt. We don't have interpretation.

Status of Women committee  Let's move the mike up, please, closer to your nose, and a bit farther out. There's a popping sound causing audio shock to our interpreters.

Status of Women committee  Sure.

Status of Women committee  I apologize for intervening again. We have lost interpretation.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry to interject, but could you perhaps bring your mike a bit farther away from your mouth? We're getting a popping sound. We're trying to improve that, because we lost interpretation at that point.

Status of Women committee  We've lost interpretation again. Could we try to move the mike a bit down and a bit farther away? Could we suspend, please?

Status of Women committee  I apologize, Ms. Tennier, but if I may interject, could you put your mike down a little bit? It seems to be up high and we're not able to catch your sound.

Status of Women committee  We have lost interpretation.

Status of Women committee  Perhaps, Madam Roy, if you could speak as loudly and slowly as possible, we'll give it another try. I do apologize for the many technical problems that we're having today.

Status of Women committee  Ms. Sultana, could you verify if you have a button that perhaps is muted on the cord? There's a little button on the cord of the microphone often that could be muted. We can't hear you, so we will have a technician reach out to you. Unfortunately, we'll have to move to the ne

Status of Women committee  Could we suspend, please?

Status of Women committee  Yes, please just sit tight. We will work on this from our end. We'll suspend now and we'll be back very shortly.

Status of Women committee  Normally in a public meeting the staff are asked to log into Parlvu and to watch the proceedings on ParlVU. That's the case with public meetings at this point. Thomas is welcome to go onto ParlVU and watch—albeit there's a bit of a delay—or to use the phone lines.

Status of Women committee  Honourable members of the committee, I see a quorum. I must inform members that the clerk of the committee can only receive motions for the election of chair. The clerk cannot receive other types of motions or entertain points of order or participate in debate. We can now procee