Status of Women committee  Thank you. What you're pointing to is in fact documented. We are seeing a decrease in poverty among women as more and more women are working outside the home. Our senior seniors would typically not have worked outside the home. I think that situation has really reversed, such that it's now atypical to only work in the home.

Status of Women committee  Some older workers face no barriers, but certainly what many older workers face is ageism. For example, if there's a downsizing, companies often look to let go older workers, perhaps to protect the wage-earning of younger workers with families or because the older workers are at the top of the pay scale, so that it's a better win financially.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. There are two things we would like, and while we commend you for the work done to support middle-class caregivers, it's really a large opportunity left unmet to look after our poorest caregivers. By creating and extending a tax credit that is refundable, that only is accessed if you have taxable income, we really leave without support those low-income tax earners whose income is not sufficient, or who have had to leave their employment to do full-time care, or who are out of the workforce because they're frail and elderly.

Status of Women committee  I'd be delighted to provide it in English and, hopefully, you have somebody who can translate it into French.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I think that elder abuse, whether it's in long-term care, as in the recent situation, or just generally among the population, is far more widespread than we realize and has caused incredible damage to individuals. CARP has been calling for a public inquiry particularly into long-term care.

Status of Women committee  That's my time, okay. I will stop there. If there are questions, I'll happily provide the rest of our suggestions.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. We are a member organization, with 300,000 members across the country. Primarily, our members are retired, but not exclusively so. While our members tend to have above-average education and income, they are very concerned about the plight of other seniors who may not have enough to live on in retirement.

Electoral Reform committee  As an organization, I don't think that's a strong enough consensus to strike a position. We're here really to share the views of our members, not to advocate for a particular position.

Electoral Reform committee  Just to be clear, our poll actually did support a referendum, but it was 53% in favour of a referendum.

Electoral Reform committee  Our surveys are not statistically significant, and we don't pretend to say that they reflect the views of the entire population. We simply poll all our members and invite them all to poll, and depending on the topic and their level of interest, we'll see somewhere between 2,000 and 10,000 respondents.

Electoral Reform committee  We'll review some more of the comments we received.

Electoral Reform committee  We've already shared a couple of the comments. I think the other one that's come through is just a concern that a relatively small percentage of electors would be able to vote for and elect a majority government.

Electoral Reform committee  With respect to online voting, if we look at our members' behaviour in other areas, surprising numbers of seniors, and particularly elderly seniors, are not online, do not have access to computers, and are not comfortable with an electronic environment. Even those who are online are reluctant to make important transactions online.

Electoral Reform committee  With respect to mandatory voting, we had a few comments on that, but nothing that I feel I could share.

Electoral Reform committee  We will. I'll start, and Wade will continue. CARP is the organization that advocates for health, financial security, and freedom from age discrimination for older Canadians. We have 300,000 members across the country, and on average our members have an above average education, income, and net worth, and approximately 87% of them are retired.