Canadian Heritage committee  In terms of developing female leaders...?

Canadian Heritage committee  In film and television, what we're seeing is that there are many programs that are currently in place and working well. Women in View runs Five in Focus. They run 2xMore, and CMPA is involved in both of those. Individual production companies are hiring 50% women directors. I kno

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, I couldn't agree with you more. Child care is a huge issue. When a woman is shooting a movie or shooting a television series, the hours are absolutely intense, so there does have to be some kind of support for child care. Interestingly, in another study I read, it mentio

Canadian Heritage committee  It's such an important question. Because you're opening a door for a really important opportunity in responding to that, I'd actually want to confer with some other women's organizations and get back to you on that. There is no question that child care needs to be part of the mix

Canadian Heritage committee  From our perspective, when we're having conversations around committee composition, board composition, and conference speakers, something I hear cited again and again is that we need 50% women. “Come on, the government did it: 50% in the cabinet. We can do it.” That was a sterlin

Canadian Heritage committee  In a study that I read just last night, it said that without any policies or programs, and just left to operate—this was a study of 21,980 companies over 91 countries—as they currently are, they will achieve gender parity by the year 2200. So I would say no, sir. I would not re

Canadian Heritage committee  When you control who tells the story, you control the story. We need more women directors, more women screenwriters, more women producers. There is no shortage of talent in any of those categories. What we find, when you do a review of the numbers coming out of Telefilm or the

Canadian Heritage committee  Go ahead, Mr. MacDougall.

Canadian Heritage committee  We still have much work to do in terms of reaching gender parity, but we've made meaningful strides and have a clear path towards achieving the goal. We've learned a few key things along the way. First, deploy the entire leadership. To address long-standing challenges such as ge