Status of Women committee  That's an interesting question. No, Coast is the product of three credit union mergers just after the start of the last decade in 2000. I have been CEO for almost three years. If I'm brutally honest, our organization would probably have looked like a lot of other organizations

Status of Women committee  Please do.

Status of Women committee  While I look for diverse teams, diversity has to cross cultures and increasingly take age into account now too, because we have almost four generations in the workplace. We didn't do anything specifically, but at the end of the day, from my perspective, I chose the best talent, a

Status of Women committee  We have a couple of mentorship programs. The one I was referring to earlier is our community youth team. It's mentorship, but it's more of a business experience and leadership development program, and as I said, I think it's unique in its industry. There are a lot of financial se

Status of Women committee  It really does.

Status of Women committee  Yes. I work with a number of women's organizations that try to help identify young women of talent and have them meet other women leaders in the organization. I'm sure Ms. Moore does the same thing. In my lifetime, I've mentored probably at least 10 or 12 young women through orga

Status of Women committee  Yes. That's actually something we have tried to help with in Vancouver. We've worked with the YMCA to create child care spaces in Vancouver, because this is a really big issue. Going through that process, I didn't realize how expensive it was to provide child care, but it is a hu

Status of Women committee  Yes. It's very difficult.

Status of Women committee  I'll be very quick. In the financial services, it's fairly even now. I don't really have any experience with any other industry, so I probably can't comment.

Status of Women committee  That's after tax.

Status of Women committee  I had a team in India. I didn't actually work there.

Status of Women committee  I would say that places like Hong Kong or the U.S. are not dissimilar to Canada. I'm not as familiar with India, so I probably can't comment too much on that. The reality is that with the exception of some countries in Scandinavia, female participation at the senior executive le

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes. I recognize that the linkage between my comments and federal public policy was perhaps not as clear as we would wish. I do appreciate that. If I had one thing, it would be using federal public policy to influence education. I think that would be it, because frankly, that's

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Again, I mentioned the participation of women at the various levels of our organization. We do this because it's the right thing, but also it makes perfect business sense. If you look at the communities we serve and you look at who makes a lot of the consumer decisio