Status of Women committee  The one thing that I would also like to ask you about is along the lines of what are those barriers to the integration. I have literally tens of thousands of seniors in my riding. I hear about things as simple as transportation costs, but I'm confident in saying that there is pro

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Chair; and thank you all for taking the time to come and present to us today. I represent a riding that has become essentially the Victoria of Ontario. I have Collingwood, Wasaga Beach.... Three of the 10 oldest demographic postal codes in the country are wi

Status of Women committee  My answer is no, and I'm happy to champion it. I have gone through a leadership campaign where people aggressively pursued harassing me. I've also had that happen on Parliament Hill. To your point, I think it's important that women in leadership roles have a voice and actually ac

Status of Women committee  I'm happy to answer the question. I'd have to have more specifics, particularly around what piece of legislation or what piece of programming you're speaking about. As a physician, I think that mental health is an issue that has to be addressed for all Canadians. As minister of

Status of Women committee  I think diversity is exceptionally important, but I don't think women should be a quota, because when you go out and earn it, you own it, and that's exceptionally important. I think all of you, just like young women from across the country, are more than capable of beating any gu

Status of Women committee  I think physicians have a huge responsibility in the solutions. I am a pediatric physician, and I think we have a bit of a different approach because we have to spend a lot of time educating the parents and children about medications or, in my case, surgery. We all, as physicians

Status of Women committee  I do know something about this. Professional bodies in Canada do their best to educate people on what is required for them to make foreign credentials applicable in Canada—for example, physicians through the Royal College and different colleges across the country for engineers,

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Thank you very much, all of you, for your presentations. They were greatly appreciated. I want to ask you, Charlotte, along the lines of the academic issue you raised—I will tell you that these approaches occur not just in academia—if maybe you have some ideas of thi

Status of Women committee  Claire, I'd like to ask you a question as well. It's based on what you were talking about in terms of the language and how we conduct ourselves. Obviously, I think the majority of parliamentarians, and the majority of professionals, try to adhere to a certain code of conduct. We

Status of Women committee  Right. These are very challenging questions, and I think parliamentarians need to take responsibility for them, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Zola, I am not going to even try to pronounce your full first name. I am going to call you Zola. You raised issues around physicians. Are you in medical school, or are you in the health sciences program?

Status of Women committee  Okay. Could you tell us a bit about whether it's different...? I was a professor at the University of Western Ontario, so I taught community health. I know what we teach our students, which does include education with regard to drug-related issues and addictions. What do you l

Status of Women committee  With respect to your own program, how are you being educated? How is it different from the medical school program?

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. Thank you all for taking some time to present to us today. Dharana, I had a question for you first, because you raised the issue of health care. It was great to meet you yesterday. I hope you all enjoyed the reception last night. Your points are very well

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Ms. Bélanger, my name is Kellie Leitch and I'm a surgeon. Thank you for your time today. I'll ask my question in English since my French is bad. One of the issues that I think face senior women across the country is access to health care. You receive a lot of stories