Question Period
Women’s employment
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Speaker, women need more than empty words. The minister is right: The federal government announced their plan in their throne speech. What has this government done? The minister’s sentiments are meaningless unless women see results. Women are trying to balance work and child care, and they are disproportionately in low-wage, front-line work that has been impacted by COVID-19. Economists are predicting a K-shaped recovery for Canada, where some are recovering more quickly because they can continue to work at home while others are lining up in the food banks. In Windsor, a trained PSW had to give up her job because of lack of child care. The minister ought to know the impacts of the pandemic are more severe on BIPOC, on Ontarians with disabilities, on women, on small businesses. But we’ve seen that there has been no real action on these files, while the government sits on $9.3 billion in reserves and unallocated funds. Speaker, what programs is this government investing in to ensure that all Ontarians can recover quickly from this economic recession?
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