Finance committee  Obviously, these are timely and very critical questions you're asking. The short answer is no. The cost to upgrade infrastructure to truly meet adaptation requirements is significant. It is monumental. Our infrastructure in this country is, for the most part, pretty old, and obv

Finance committee  Certainly, all our members across the country, cities and communities across the country, really welcome this current budget and celebrate the one-time doubling of the federal gas tax fund. More to the point, as we were talking about in our comments here today, it really is a sig

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you, all. We are pleased to have this opportunity to explore budget 2019, especially the tools that it provides to municipal governments to help them build a better life for families and workers in Canada. I'm Carole Saab. I'm the head of

Status of Women committee  At a municipal level, in 2015 we worked very hard to try to solicit that kind of information in local government. To add to the challenge in terms of my questions here around data as a barrier, part of our challenge in doing this is that the data is collected very unevenly by pro

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Congratulations. That's fantastic. Kudos on that. You've heard a lot about it and we could talk a lot about it, and we'd be happy to send more information about the scope of the systemic barriers to women engaging in politics at all orders of government across the board. In te

Status of Women committee  That's a good question. We don't do any formal tracking by gender. We are very conscious of who in our provincial or federal counterparts has a municipal background. It would be interesting to look at that gender stat, so we'd be happy to do that in our work.

Status of Women committee  We'll take that question and get back to you. I'm not sure what the most efficient way of getting that answer is, but we'll identify it and happily get back to you.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair, and good afternoon, everyone. My name is Carole Saab. I'm the executive director of policy and public affairs with the FCM. I'm joined here today by Councillor Yolaine Kirlew, who was just elected as our third vice-president two weeks ago, alon