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Lib. (ON)
On a quick 10-second follow-up, when was it that you explored with the U.S. negotiator the possibility of this and they said, “no way”?
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Lib. (ON)
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Lib. (ON)
Yes.
The Chair: Go ahead.
Ms. Chrystia Freeland: Our chair, I am now learning, keeps us strictly to our time, so I'll try to get two quick questions in.
The first is a kind of macro one about some changes in the macro environment—the price of oil. Do you see the falling price of oil changing air travel in ways that are going to affect your negotiations? Is there going to be a lot more travel and are we going to be looking at a lot more desire for flying?
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Lib. (ON)
Have you done any projections on that? Are you making any plans based on that possibility right now?
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Lib. (ON)
Last question, Mr. Christie. You spoke a minute ago about your stakeholders being the carriers and the airports and trying to serve them in these negotiations. How do you fit in the interests of consumers and travellers and also of people who work for airlines? What's the balance you're trying to strike? I realize that it must be really hard. Multiplayer chess comes to mind. Can you give us a sense of your thinking when you're working with all of these different interest groups behind you?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Madam Chair.
It's a real pleasure for me to be here. I'd like to start by thanking our three witnesses for their terrific testimony from such different areas of women's lives. I think it's worth it for all of us to pause and reflect on how important this conversation is. Also, at least for me, it's shocking that we're still having these conversations.
My mother graduated from U of A law school in 1970. I remember being so proud of her as a pioneering Canadian professional and feminist, but really being confident as her daughter that these kinds of conversations, which are very familiar to me from my mom's kitchen, would not be ones that I would be having. I think our generation, the women around this table, have to make sure our daughters don't have these conversations 20 or 30 years from now.
Ms. McDonald spoke about how progress can happen, but that it's very slow. I think we collectively have to decide to speed it up.
I have a few questions.
Ms. McDonald, I was interested in your comments about women on boards. I would love to know your view on how strong the nudge from legislation should be. What's your view on quotas for boards, on a comply-or-explain kind of policy? Is there a country that you think gets this right?
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Lib. (ON)
I agree with you, and I like your comments about B-corps. Would you like to see some Canadian legislation that encourages them? Some states in the U.S. and Latin American countries have it.
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Lib. (ON)
I'd like to ask Ms. Archer one last question.
Thanks for that great presentation. It was wonderful to see you in Edmonton in the summer. You identified, as you did in Edmonton, this very small funding gap for women, especially, say, a single mother with kids who wants to get training and boost their well-being, their family's and the community's. How would you suggest we go about closing that? Would it be an expansion of what we think of as student loans? Would it be an expansion of job training? What's the solution?
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Lib. (ON)
Is there a specific way that you would extend that? Is there one program which you think should be expanded?
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Lib. (ON)
I'd like to go back to Ms. McDonald.
I'd like to start by saying I really appreciate your point about the not accidental coincidence that in professions and in academic areas where we see women starting to succeed, we start to see a pay differential opening up. I felt that very much when I was a reporter in the Soviet Union. I discovered that what we would call finance directors in factories were all women and they were paid very little, and also all the doctors were women and they were paid very little. There is a social component to high-and low-paid professions.
I was really interested in your comments about access to capital, and that it is difficult particularly for women entrepreneurs. Is there anything we can do about that?
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Lib. (ON)
Feminist revolution, for sure, but what are our steps?
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Lib. (ON)
Finance is a heavily regulated industry. Is there maybe some kind of reporting that we should start making obligatory just to be saying, separating out, how many loans are going to...?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you very much.
I want to go back to Ms. Archer in Edmonton.
I think we've all been really impressed, as I was over the summer, with the great work of your program. I'd like to ask you whether from the perspective of the work you're doing you think we should be increasing the work of apprenticeship programs and focus maybe specifically on young women earlier in their lives, maybe in high school. Is there an opportunity there?
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Lib. (ON)
That sounds really smart and intriguing. What would pre-apprenticeship training or education be? Can you describe your ideal a little bit?
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