Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  Sean, I have a comment for you.

Status of Women committee  You have your baby girl right now. I left my kids when they were at the five-year-old to 10-year-old stage. Now that they're teenagers, they pack my bags for me. It gets better.

Status of Women committee  I think so, especially at the provincial and federal levels, absolutely. It's a little more difficult at the municipal level because we don't have set sitting days. Our schedules are sporadic, so that definitely makes it a little harder, but it's something that I would definitely

Status of Women committee  Even online.

Status of Women committee  To give you some insight, I was brand new to our community. We had lived in Marwayne for only eight months, I was 29 years old, and I was pregnant. That really was not the norm in rural Marwayne, Alberta, so when I ran, my intention was actually just to meet people in the communi

Status of Women committee  It's very positive that we are in a different generation right now. I look at the conversations I have with my children. I have a gender-balanced family: two boys, two girls. We don't talk about differences in female or male, skin colour, ethnicity, or sexuality. We talk about ev

Status of Women committee  I think we can look at it two ways. It's how we choose to empower social media. Right now there is a very negative connotation with social media, with negative remarks, comments, the visible bullying that goes on right now. What can we do? How do we educate our public so that we

Status of Women committee  I actually think that the networking opportunities in rural Canada are very different for men versus women. By choice, my husband golfs. He curls. He's the one who takes the boys to hockey practice. He has that social networking. I'm at home. I think we need to somehow increase t

Status of Women committee  I did touch on that when we talked about the lack of interaction when somebody isn't successful for the nomination and what we do at the next election cycle. We do have that three- or four-year gap where we aren't utilizing our time wisely.

Status of Women committee  Because of our geographical location, public transit is difficult. When you have communities that are spread 20 or 30 minutes apart, it's really hard to be able to establish a system that would be reliable and be used by a lot of people.

Status of Women committee  Yes, expensive. That's exactly it. My little village has a hard time paying for broken sidewalks. We never could think about having a transit system in our community. That's our reality.

Status of Women committee  I have to agree with Karen. As she said, it's the non-partisan aspect.

Status of Women committee  I can comment on that. I'm from a very small village in Alberta of 600 people. When I first got elected.... My last baby was born on a Friday and she came to Monday night's council meeting with me. I've been there. I've done it. My kids have coloured underneath meeting room table

Status of Women committee  There are really so many benefits. I've often told people that my kids can learn how to cook from a cookbook. They can't read a piece of paper and learn how to be a leader. They're following me. They're watching me. I think that I have raised four very well-rounded children who h