Andrea Mrozek presents to the House of Commons Standing Committee on the...

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On November 19, 2020, Andrea Mrozek, a senior fellow with Cardus Family, testified on the issue of child care policy before the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women. “Child care is the care of a child, no matter who does it. Child care is not only a women’s issue but also a family issue and ought to be treated as such. We have across Canada a tremendous and beautiful diversity of care options available, care that is both done and chosen by families according to their own cultures, customs, traditions and work needs." You can read the opening remarks of Andrea Mrozek, Cardus Senior Fellow, here: https://www.cardus.ca/research/family...​

Inside the construction work at Parliament Hill Dec.2020

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we're at the early stages of

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construction in the center block in the

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parliament welcome center

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a really exciting phase of any project

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right at the beginnings

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so we are doing the demolition and

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abatement work of the interior spaces of

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the center block

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doing the excavation work for the new

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parliament welcome center

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and soon we'll be starting the

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restoration of the heritage masonry

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of this building it's a really exciting

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phase of the project and in parallel

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we're now down to the final strokes and

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finishing off

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the future uses of the building the

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conservation strategy

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and the design elements in what is

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undoubtedly the most important building

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in canada

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and one of the most important spaces

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globally but it's incredible

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the opportunity to see the center block

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with fresh eyes

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as you get to the uh see the the

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sculptures

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and carvings up close and touch them uh

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to be able to get to the

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ceiling of the house chamber and the

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senate chamber

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it's really uh quite incredible so my

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position as dominion sculptor

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is is to continue the ongoing sculpture

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program that the architect

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john pearson had in mind for the

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building and that is to

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his intention was to leave hundreds of

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of uncarved blocks within the the space

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so that those blocks could be carved and

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sculpted to interpret canadian history

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as it evolved

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and the work is continuing to go on

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today what's amazing it really is you're

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you're it really puts you in touch with

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the work that was done by people in the

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past it's it's like

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connecting to a hundred years of

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sculptural history i mean this is

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it's a the building itself inside is an

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artwork that has been

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in the making for a hundred years and

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you're part of it it's like you're

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picking up your predecessor's brush or

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picking up the materials it's

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it's an amazing feeling project is

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coming along great

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the excavation is right on track the

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demolition and abatement

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is is on track we've we've removed about

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5 000 truckloads of rock

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from the what will be the new parliament

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welcome center

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at the end we'll be removing about 50

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000 of those truckloads

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uh we're about 40 percent completed the

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demolition and abatement phase of the

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the interior so starting from the sixth

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floor

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and from the basement and working down

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to those high heritage

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spaces like the the chamber floor so

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starting from those areas with the lower

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heritage elements

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but taking great care even there all of

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the marble

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and wood being carefully disassembled

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cataloged and stored

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and then taking out the

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asbestos-containing material at this

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point we've removed about five and a

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half

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million pounds of asbestos containing

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material

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and that's being carefully taken away to

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special

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uh containment sites uh

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and everything on this project is being

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done with a tremendous amount of care

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and with the uh with the objective of

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getting this right

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so that it works for a modern parliament

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and

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21st century and beyond and makes

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generations of canadians proud into the

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future