Status of Women committee  We can pick it up after.

Status of Women committee  Many things have changed, but we don't have time to go over everything. I'll tell you two things. I myself come from a more or less macho cultural community—let's say that in a very nice way. I was the first woman of Greek origin elected to the House of Commons. So I was a pheno

Status of Women committee  Are you talking about what's changed these days?

Status of Women committee  I'll say one thing.

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  I will answer once—parity. The fact that we have parity in government around the cabinet table gives you role models for people to aspire to.

Status of Women committee  I'm also going to give my personal opinion. To begin with, we mentioned the legislation before the House. We're talking about having incentives, rather than disincentives, for political parties in terms of how to increase the number of women who will be running. I'd also like t

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I was a chair once.

Status of Women committee  Maybe not.

Status of Women committee  No, go ahead. We'll share the space.

Status of Women committee  And who has lived from 39, when I was too old to get elected today. All of that said, we have tried to be as concise as we could with whatever we've proposed by way of recommendations to the committee. There are health issues that could be addressed by doing video conferencing o

Status of Women committee  Equal Voice hasn't taken a position in favour of one system or another. I think the important thing is to have any system. Even if a proportional electoral system were used, it would still be the leader who would decide who would be on the list first or second. It wouldn't make m

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  That's one of the reasons we give an opportunity at panels for them to get the viewpoints of each of the individual parties. We do not influence in any way the choice, but we have that debate and we hope to continue to have that debate so that women can choose on their own how th