Status of Women committee  I think flexibility in the workplace is key to our moving forward, because the whole way we work is changing. This is where I think women would come in with the innovation word. Having good systems whereby people work at home but there's still accountability to the employer would

Status of Women committee  Yes. I think that self-employed people don't trust that if they pay in, they will be able to claim. That's what has been shown to them over the years. There needs to be a clear way for them to understand that if they pay in this much on an ongoing basis, and they need to put in a

Status of Women committee  Language is a barrier. Language is a barrier if you're a francophone woman and you're living in an English community. Many immigrant women coming in are francophone, and they seem to fare better. I think this illustrates the fact that if the language barrier is not there, they ca

Status of Women committee  I would say that there is a huge difference. I think it's because the programs to grow your business are all focused around innovation and STEM technology. Women don't fit easily in there. They're more around social innovation. When they go to the mainstream incubators to get fun

Status of Women committee  I'm going to take a different focus. I've spent most of my adult life working with women who are very diverse and very vulnerable and trying to move them from that position through what I call a tool, the tool being self-employment. I work a lot in northern Ontario. That's where