Finance committee  I'll answer that in English, if that's okay. Obviously, sometimes it's difficult for people who are experiencing domestic violence to provide the traditional kinds of documentation, and we don't want the requirements for documentation to impose barriers on people who are alread

Status of Women committee  Well, no, I think they've done a good job of wrapping up. The idea of empowering people to take command of their rights is good, but I do think that the government can show proactive leadership in bringing rights to policy-making. That, I think, is fundamental. That's what this i

Status of Women committee  A really important component to all of this is training for managers. In the labour movement we are engaged in a very extensive training program for our shop stewards right now, to build awareness of this issue. There are programs available for employers in most provinces now. Bu

Status of Women committee  I would say it's the lack of decent work.

Status of Women committee  I would also add employment equity legislation and pay equity legislation.

Status of Women committee  And a federal minimum wage, too, would help.

Status of Women committee  A couple of things need to happen in addition to having access to the time. One is to view domestic violence as a workplace hazard, a health and safety issue. Our colleagues in Australia, whose work we are basing this model on, have many years of implementing these types of cla

Status of Women committee  I knew my tweets would come back to me someday. I think you're referring to my remarks on the difference between women's economic empowerment and women's economic justice. This is why we very cautiously use the term “economic justice”. “Economic security” is pretty good, too, but

Status of Women committee  There are two types of leave that we're talking about. What women really need is what we call paid safe time. These are days to be taken not consecutively but whenever needed, and maybe not full days; there could be half days. Then it's possible that some women may require lo

Status of Women committee  Exactly. We're talking about employment standards and the Canada Labour Code. Manitoba has five days; Ontario's private member's bill suggests 10.

Status of Women committee  Let's start there.

Status of Women committee  In conclusion, we just have to say, why wait? In 2017, we call on our government to act to put women in Canada on a path toward economic justice. Thanks.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I'm happy to be here with my colleague Angella MacEwen, our senior economist. I'm Vicky Smallman and I'm the national director of women's and human rights at the Canadian Labour Congress. We're the national voice of 3.3 million workers in Canada, bringing together na

Pay Equity committee  The task force report is detailed about that as well, in that non-unionized employees also need some representation. It allows for the participation in these pay equity committees of other employee groups besides unions.

Pay Equity committee  That's a good question. I think that it depends on buy-in. With good legislation we want to make sure the public sector and private sector employers and the unions are all buying into the process. That's going to be, I guess, the next debate once we have some legislation on the t