Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to my NDP colleague for sharing his time.
I want to take up one of the issues raised by the Canadian Federation of University Women in its brief but not mentioned in its remarks.
With respect to pay equity, you're asking for the hiring of 50 public servants to work as pay equity commissioners and supporters, and also for $80 million per year toward the new pay equity commission. Do you share my wish that this had been in last year's budget so that it would have been ready for this pending legislation? Do you share my frustration that it's now two and a half years after the tabling of the special pay equity committee's report, which said that we can't wait or had something in the title along those lines? What has been the cost of waiting with respect to women?