Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for sharing that very personal story. I wish you all the best with your partnership. You asked me early on about the GBA+ on resource development projects. One thing we take into consideration now, especially with the new Impact Assessment Act that was passed last ye

Status of Women committee  I disagree with the premise of that question. We have moved forward—

Status of Women committee  —with resource development projects.

Status of Women committee  We have to ensure that the positive benefits—

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much for your question. I'm glad that the Prime Minister has partnered me up with you, Gudie. One thing that those of us who come from rural communities or mixed rural-urban communities are tasked with, just by the nature of this beautiful country, is we have to wor

Status of Women committee  Gender, environment and labour are among the considerations we've taken with NAFTA, and there are agreements that have a specific gender chapter while they take all of that into account.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question, and thank you for your work as a minister. You've moved significant pieces of work forward. We will be celebrating it on March 8. Because this is a very special year for women's rights and equality as a whole, the theme, #BecauseOfYou, is the theme f

Status of Women committee  That is most definitely a gap that we should all still work on. Unpaid work more often than not is caregiving work. More often than not, it's provided by women. It's one of those areas of work that is highly undervalued, yet our economies and our communities would not be able to

Status of Women committee  That number, one in two, sent shock waves across the country. One in two women experiences harassment or gender-based violence at work here in Canada. In the last Parliament, the House of Commons, unanimously passed Bill C-65. That was a significant step. The international commun

Status of Women committee  We have to get our own house in order, first. Some provinces and territories are way ahead of the federal government with their efforts in advancing gender equality. When we took the patchwork of policies that existed federally and put them all into one plan with Bill C-65, we

Status of Women committee  We are in the process of actually doing just that. We've taken the hundreds of recommendations that have come forward from various reports, conventions and recommendations on the issue of gender-based violence. My team at Women and Gender Equality have put it all in one beautiful

Status of Women committee  You're absolutely right. Violence is a significant barrier to women achieving their full potential in this country. We've been able to invest in close to 7,000 shelter spaces so far, recognizing that there's still much more work to be done. Our housing strategy support has a pill

Status of Women committee  Okay.

Status of Women committee  The twirling pen.