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Human Resources committee  That is why I was saying that we have to see how things are done in other countries, like Finland and Denmark, where children are considered a long-term investment. It's not just about the pregnancy, the breast-feeding or the jobs, but truly about the entire system.

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur

Human Resources committee  Yes, I quite agree. That is why I believe we need an integrated approach. We must not forget that this all represents an investment. We are quite familiar with the problem caused by some people not wanting to have children. We must not forget that this is an investment. These ch

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur

Human Resources committee  That is how we have to look at the question.

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur

Human Resources committee  I would like to talk about the fact that it's already a question that professional people, especially, have to work with. Engineers, for example, and even scientists like me, will not take the full year, because we know we could lose promotions and raises, and it's a very competi

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur

Human Resources committee  I think it depends. The larger corporations.... You talked about Irving. Yes, we are very familiar with their program. I'm very familiar with what they are doing. That helps a lot. The problem is that we have few large corporations that can do that, versus the small and medium-s

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. As I see it, employment insurance is one stage. However, if we are talking about a national strategy, it is going to be very important to think about better integration with matters like working conditions. If we consider the International Labour Org

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur

Human Resources committee  Thank you for the question. There is definitely a big challenge among the three components, as you know. First, in school, we don't encourage women and girls to go into trades, technology, science, engineering—trades being the thing that has been mentioned the most—especially i

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much. I would like to also acknowledge Melodie. We met in May 2016 at the national conference of CCWESTT, the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology. Thank you very much for this opportunity to talk about the private member's

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur

Human Resources committee  Yes. Perfect.

April 6th, 2017Committee meeting

Liette Vasseur