I wasn't defending university salaries on April 25 whatsoever. I think you brought it up, if I recall; I don't have the transcript. You brought it up in a reference to some comparative thing. I said that's under separate collective bargaining, and professors are unionized in most universities—not all universities—and in most colleges.
To come back to your primary point, you said it wasn't serious to point out the gap, the empirical wage gap, between the minimum starting salary in the private sector and the public sector. Maybe you're not familiar with comparative statistical analysis. Because I'm a tenured professor and I don't consult, I spend most of my time every day wandering through StatsCanada and Labour Canada databases. That's what I do all day long. I just look at government databases all the time and I look at comparative analyses from the OECD and so forth.
So to say that it's not relevant to show the minimum starting salary in the private sector, which is the floor of the floor of the floor, so the floor of the floor of the floor in the public sector is something I don't—quite frankly, I don't understand your question. Of course it's comparative, of course it's legitimate, and of course it's empirical.