Status of Women committee  Exactly as it's written—Eleni Bakopanos.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to share our recommendations with you. The clerk has distributed a copy to all of you. We thought we'd write it down so you'd at least have a chance to look at it. We're not going to deal with the problems, but we wanted to be very concret

Status of Women committee  I'm going to start by saying that we have to change the language. Emmanuella, you're absolutely right. You heard me say “public service”, and not necessarily “politics”. I think we have to start using different language, even for men and women in politics at the same time. I wo

Status of Women committee  We do also hold a lot of panels where we invite people across party lines to discuss the issues. For example, in Montreal, the Quebec chapter did a panel on exactly the challenges that some municipal councillors face when they give birth while in office, what those challenges we

Status of Women committee  Personally, I think that when you add women, you change the culture. I want to respond a little bit to what was said earlier about one of the witnesses. It's not the number that is the issue, but it's been proven over and over again—analysis has been done—that you need at least

Status of Women committee  That's one of the reasons we give an opportunity at panels for them to get the viewpoints of each of the individual parties. We do not influence in any way the choice, but we have that debate and we hope to continue to have that debate so that women can choose on their own how th

Status of Women committee  That goes back to the political parties and the choices they make.

Status of Women committee  I think Elections Canada needs to have a system, as was done during the last election campaign. It did that for young people. I think it should do the same for women. However, we can start with the basics. The country's education system doesn't include any civic participation cou

Status of Women committee  Equal Voice hasn't taken a position in favour of one system or another. I think the important thing is to have any system. Even if a proportional electoral system were used, it would still be the leader who would decide who would be on the list first or second. It wouldn't make m

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Maybe not.

Status of Women committee  No, go ahead. We'll share the space.

Status of Women committee  And who has lived from 39, when I was too old to get elected today. All of that said, we have tried to be as concise as we could with whatever we've proposed by way of recommendations to the committee. There are health issues that could be addressed by doing video conferencing o

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I was a chair once.