Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  You've asked me to comment on your provincial-federal relations, and I'm not sure I can fix those for you. I would say there are Scandinavian countries that have some good models around child care. They may not have the same makeup between the federal and provincial governments.

Status of Women committee  Are you talking to me or Peter?

Status of Women committee  I would say that the opportunities available for women, because there is such a challenge for them to be able to manoeuvre with these constraints, both financial and not having access to good child care, especially in our region.... I mean, it's spotty at best. Even though we're

Status of Women committee  Well, you pointed to other countries. Look to the Scandinavian countries and how they deal with child care. There's no distinguishing factor between what you earn and your access to child care because you pay for it on your income tax. There are a lot of examples out there. You

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I know that the digital divide for women has been focused on today, but what I said earlier is that you can see the disparity when women don't have access to the tools they need. It's disturbing, because it's not just at the level where there's the pay inequity as wel

Status of Women committee  I would say that starting with some of the basic tools that you need to climb out of poverty are those tools of assistance. A basic income is something that I know has been talked about for a long time, and I'm sure we'll have a lot of conversations on that in the future, but acc

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry; I didn't get the full translation, but I appreciate the response that.... I had a sense that it was on the economics. My apologies for that. Again, this broadband network for a country of our size is going to be challenging, but, quite frankly, it's necessary to ke

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. I have a lot of bumps on my head. When you're bumping up against the next rung, it's always a bit of a challenge to get to the next one. It's probably taken me twice as long as any male to get to where I had to go. It's not that I mind that; I would

Status of Women committee  It's a critical component of what we do because much of our work is done in a very technical way. We collect data for our production, for our growers, so it's very important. We don't have access. We're just starting to get high-speed Internet in Niagara, believe it or not, but i

Status of Women committee  I touched on it. It's that access to education. When you can't do the traditional type of education by being in a classroom, the opportunity is there to do that working around other things. In particular, if you're having to work and then come home, you're less likely to be going

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  I think it's fundamental. If you look at rural Canada and the access to a broadband network, you see it's not available in most communities. I think it's changing. Add the complexity of the pandemic on top of this, where single-parent families are usually headed by women. They're

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Good morning, everyone. I'm delighted to be here today. I want to start out by saying that this subject often feels like Groundhog Day. I hope the irony is not lost on anyone, recognizing today is just that, with the groundhog actually seeing its shadow. It feels like