Status of Women committee  I completely agree with both of the statements. Ultimately it comes down to broader patterns of inequality throughout our society. The way we really deal with it is by developing policy solutions with the people who are most negatively impacted at the core. If we bring that kin

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure if statistics can get us into.... The ILO study I refer to is a global study, but the dynamic of the gender expectation that women provide unpaid care and the disproportionate numbers of women in the care workforce is well documented globally and in Canada as well.

Status of Women committee  I certainly feel quite strongly that we need to have the pay equity legislation enacted yesterday. For care workers, many of them are covered under provincial and territorial labour legislation, so we would need to have some legislative action there. However, federal leadership i

Status of Women committee  Maybe I could just reply quickly to that. That was an excellent question, and I think data is extremely important to help us shape a coherent policy response to a systemic problem. The general social survey that Statistics Canada conducts does analyze the time use. What you need

Status of Women committee  I would totally agree. Unless we invest in robust health care and other care systems, we're not going to be able to address the gaps that have been really exposed by this crisis. You can't just provide funding. There also has to be a coherent strategy to ensure that we are expan

Status of Women committee  Maybe I'll start. I think the investments that were announced this week have been very welcome. The establishment of the secretariat is an essential step towards building a comprehensive pan-Canadian system of early learning and child care. What needs to happen next, though—and

Status of Women committee  Thank you for inviting me to be a part of today's discussion. I'm pleased to appear on behalf of the more than three million workers who are part of the Canadian Labour Congress and working across the country in every sector of the economy. I'm very happy that the committee has

Status of Women committee  I can expand on the long-term care, Lindsay, if you would like me to do that.

Status of Women committee  I do think that it's important for the sector-specific kinds of initiatives in long-term care and child care to continue. What we really actually need is this big-picture analysis of who is providing care in this country. Who is doing the work, paid or unpaid? If these are paid

Status of Women committee  Convention C189 is a really important convention. Domestic workers, and particularly those who come here as migrants, have slipped through the cracks of any support and recovery response measures that have been established through this pandemic. There is a growing and organized

Status of Women committee  I want to flip the discussion a little to immigrant women who have been really impacted: the low-wage workers who are highly skilled but whose skills are not being recognized because the work itself is undervalued. We're talking about care workers, many of whom are coming in with

Status of Women committee  I'm hoping that this committee has spoken with some of the child care organizations, like Child Care Now and the Childcare Resource and Research Unit. We have a long relationship with these groups. The child care movement as a whole, along with its allies, has spent decades comin

Status of Women committee  Thanks. I don't know if I am really the right person to talk about women entrepreneurs as my organization represents workers specifically. I will say that the things we are advocating, in terms of certain key aspects of a feminist recovery, include quality public services that

Status of Women committee  It's hugely important, and I'm glad to have an opportunity to talk about the violence as well as jobs. The national action plan is a requirement that the UN set for all member states. We're supposed to have a national action plan to address, respond to and eliminate violence aga

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for inviting me to be a part of your discussion today. The CLC, as you know, is the largest labour organization in Canada, bringing together dozens of national and international unions, provincial and territorial federations of labour and community-based labo