Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  To the extent that a woman business owner was or is eligible for that financial support, that hypothetical woman business owner benefited from that program or intervention. In this hypothetical scenario, without that financial support, that woman business owner would certainly be

Finance committee  No, of course not.

Finance committee  Yes, no doubt.

Finance committee  CERB, absolutely. CERB and CRB, 100%. CERB was very much designed for individuals and self-employed individuals. CERB and CRB were a real lifeline. If you want me to acknowledge that those financial programs helped businesses, including some women-owned businesses, it's acknowled

Finance committee  That's fine.

Finance committee  What do women entrepreneurs need? They need grant funding. They need financial support directly in their pockets to help them with rebuilding and recovering their businesses. As things go back to normal, as their children go back to school and back into child care, however that i

Finance committee  Absolutely. I want to state unequivocally that the child care announcement in this budget is historic. The investment is historic. It is absolutely what our community has been asking for and looking for. Although I have complaints, and I don't hesitate to air those complaints whe

Finance committee  Sure. Thank you for the question. The bulk of the financial support is through a couple of different programs. I'm sure this committee knows this well. I'm not telling anybody what they don't know. We have CEBA loans and the wage subsidy. Those are the two big ones for business

Finance committee  The wage subsidy is still not applicable to freelancers. They work for themselves and contract with other folks. In terms of CEBA, if they have a certain amount of fixed costs, they can access that, but it is a long, hard road to get access to that CEBA, in terms of this prelimin

Finance committee  I have, yes. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. I did appear before this committee about a month ago, just prior to the release of the federal budget. When I appeared the last time, I articulated the need for our government to reinvest in the women entreprene

Finance committee  I'm going to let my colleague PK address this question around debt.

Finance committee  I'll turn this over to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. There are not a lot of women who own tech giants.

Finance committee  It's critical when we look at economic housing issues to make sure not only that a gender-based analysis is implemented, but also that we're looking at intersectional issues. When you pair economic inequalities with racial inequalities and gender inequalities, you see that these

Finance committee  There's no doubt that child care is essential. It's long overdue that Canada implement a national child care program that is publicly funded and takes the model we see in Quebec, which has excellent, robust data showing that it works, that there's a good return on investment ther