Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly. There is no doubt that in countries that have imposed quotas for women on the board, companies somehow find women and they succeed in achieving those quotas. France imposed 40%. They have 40% women on the board. Several countries are all along the same vein. If you im

Canadian Heritage committee  I think one of the things to bear in mind is that although there is absolutely a benefit in seeing women in roles of leadership in an organization, you need to have a dialogue and support from a broader community. That is, you're not going to achieve anything without advocates fr

Canadian Heritage committee  Certainly. In this area of the not-for-profits, the expectation of contributing financially is clearly an impediment. I don't think there's a simple answer to get around that particular need for these types of organizations. The only other way to approach this is to broaden you

Canadian Heritage committee  That is an element of the problem. There's a large focus on finding the individuals who have industry expertise, and in particular, who have had CEO industry expertise. If you focus on that, you immediately reduce the number of potential candidates, but if you instead look at p

Canadian Heritage committee  To answer that question from my perspective, part of the issue that we see in the public companies here is the lack of ability to retain talent that is already within the organization. That's where most of those programs that I alluded to have the benefit, in that you have talent

Canadian Heritage committee  To be honest, I actually view that as a very different issue from increasing diversity in an organization. It can be an impediment, but it is not where the focus is. In terms of measures that people could explore, clearly, the best measure is having an organization with a culture

Canadian Heritage committee  Good morning, Madam Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for according me the honour of speaking with you this morning to share my observations on improving gender diversity. I'm a partner at the law firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP. We are a national corpora