Status of Women committee  Because it doesn't meet any of the standards.

Status of Women committee  But you haven't met any of the standards on pay equity--nothing.

Status of Women committee  It does--

Status of Women committee  Again, if we had the equal—

Status of Women committee  You know, if we are all on the same page--wanting to actually have equal pay for work of equal value for women not just in the federal sector but in the federally regulated sector--then, in terms of the objective of how to get there, this law is not well thought out. It was not c

Status of Women committee  We don't want lawyers to get rich on women's bad wages. Let's be real clear.

Status of Women committee  We don't think you should get...or not you personally. Well, you personally too, but....

Status of Women committee  We don't think lawyers should get rich on women being paid badly. We do think that women need to get these payments faster. I haven't seen anything in this legislation that would mean that women are actually going to get these payments faster, because we seem to be missing some

Status of Women committee  No. I think if we're sitting in this room a year from now, we're not going to see any significant difference in it because of this law of yours.

Status of Women committee  Let's be really clear here. If we had an equal power relationship in the workplace, you would have better ground to stand on. The reality is that we don't. We don't control the workplace. We try to bargain for a better situation for all our members. We defend our workers and we

Status of Women committee  I think it's to catch the unions coming and going, if I can use that English expression. We're prevented from helping anybody. We'll be fined if we help you. But, by the way, you're equally responsible when you get to the bargaining table. You can't have it both ways. So it wor

Status of Women committee  Very briefly, they won't have a recourse; they won't have the resources. You're right that you can't negotiate away justice, dignity, and rights in the overall collective bargaining. But I would take exception with you about women not being good negotiators. Some of the toughest

Status of Women committee  I just wanted to say that of course we have the expertise, but we have the expertise that says this has to be done separately. It can't be part of regular collective bargaining. As I said, you put the equitable compensation law and the wage freezes for the federal public sector

Status of Women committee  I guess now we'll have two systems that don't work for women. Gisèle will still deal in the federal private sector with...because nothing has been done to improve that system. Nothing's been done to make sure it meets the requirements of the task force. Quite frankly, we'll h

Status of Women committee  I don't have those specific figures, but surely we could find them. There would be a huge expense, obviously, to the taxpayers and to the unions. Gisèle would certainly know from the Bell Canada case. In our office, one of the executive assistants to our president was an EA at