Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks, Shelly. I'm happy to do so. Mr. Bergeron, you're absolutely right that there is an intensification, but it's not only pandemic-related. It's also due to the nature of warfare, the increasing complexity of warfare that's been happening and the increasing disparities and i

Foreign Affairs committee  Girls, as you know, are already particularly vulnerable to being excluded from education systems for various reasons, but often driven by poverty, domestic expectations and gender inequalities. Now, with COVID, that is being exacerbated even further, where girls are even more exp

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you, Chair. Thank you for the committee's invitation for my colleague, Jaya Murthy, and me to contribute to this critical and timely study, and for its focus on children in crisis and conflict. We are proud Canadians and we've each spent the majority of the past 20 years