Status of Women committee  I think relationships are everything. Awareness and the opportunity for women to gather together and talk about strength and those things you mentioned.... You talked about wisdom and their contributions. I think we need to bring all those things to them. It's about balance and o

Status of Women committee  There does need to be...absolutely. There is a link between poor dental care and heart disease and health problems, so absolutely there needs to be. Not only do they need it, but where they can get it needs to be accessible. Every community needs to have public health units. Not

Status of Women committee  I totally agree with what you have said. I have done some work, and I have written practice guidelines on women abuse and intimate partner violence. I have read the report you are talking about, in my other job, which I'm not going to talk about here. I know that particular group

Status of Women committee  I strongly believe that women need to be compensated for the work they do, and not only outside of their homes. That is something the government, in my opinion, has not looked into as it should have. I'm not sure if I have the answer to that. There have to be things in place to

Status of Women committee  That's an excellent question. I would recommend that if the federal government is funding a program, there should be policies or mandates from the federal government to evaluate and ensure that the program is functioning as it should be. I think it's broader than speaking to th

Status of Women committee  I do communicate, and one of my...the honourable Sonia is here. We do a lot of programs together. We need to have something more, bigger.

Status of Women committee  That community cannot cope with the transition in technology. The government needs to come out with new skills so that if these women still want to work they can still be productive and supportive.

Status of Women committee  I think that was well covered.

Status of Women committee  If I may say so, I don't think language barriers are the only issues we're having. I think they are one of the issues that might be stopping some of our senior women from enjoying some of the facilities we have, but I would also mention things like the need for us to assess the c

Status of Women committee  In addition to that, the intersectionality is something that we all need to think about all the time. Many factors come to intersect. There is immigration, being an immigrant. Maybe poverty is an intersect. We've talked about education as an intersect, as well as religion. Many t

Status of Women committee  Wow. I don't know if I have all the answers, but I will try. Thank you so much for bringing so many wonderful ideas, which I'm sure are not new to anyone here. Society, in my opinion, needs to change its thinking in regard to seniors in general and specifically senior women, be

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much. I think many times you realize that there are so many initiatives in the communities, but they're not well managed and they're sitting in silos. In my statement, I talked about the need to also include senior women in identifying what their needs would be. I

Status of Women committee  It is a fact that many seniors are staying at home because of our transit system. First of all, many of them are immobile. They can't drive, for safety reasons. The transit system that we currently have is not efficient in terms of meeting the needs of seniors. I already touched

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much.

Status of Women committee  Yes.