Status of Women committee  What the research tells us and what our experience on the ground in 300 communities across the country also demonstrates is that mathematically we cannot have a recovery if we don't look at the experiences and needs of women. We need all hands on deck. Any single barrier—a gender

Status of Women committee  I can share a bit, and then I'll pass it to my colleague, Ms. Roy. One of the things that we have seen and we were pleased to see in the national housing strategy is a 33% carve-out for gender-responsive investments. That is the type of mechanism that would allow us to have more

Status of Women committee  If I can supplement with respect to the child care question, one of the things that we would like to see is a nationwide approach to child care, similar to the Canada Health Act. I think that's an excellent model to look at. What we need is high-quality child care across the coun

Status of Women committee  Thank you so much. As Maya has talked about, the folks most impacted in this crisis are folks who are already marginalized, such as minority women, newcomer women, immigrant women and women with disabilities. What this crisis has shown us is that the old way of approaching thin