The point is that we have pay equity advocates who are now saying that this bill, as it is currently worded, provides less protection than what currently exists, and that women will have to go back to court to fight for their rights again, which means that it's a government betrayal of the commitments made around pay equity.
I think it is important to stress that these are numerous voices in the scant few hours of testimony that we've had so far, and because the government is invoking a bulldozer trying to ram this through, the fact that there are deep flaws in the legislation, I would hope, would give the government pause to step back and not ram through the legislation but actually work with pay equity advocates, with civil society and with opposition members so that we can get it right. I'll come back to that in a moment, because not getting it right means prolonging the crisis that exists in inequality in this country.
Another component of Bill C-86 is the parental leave provisions. We heard this morning that now one third of all families that should most benefit from the benefits that were put into the budget bill will not receive them because the criteria that are set up around the parental leave benefits don't allow them to access them. Are you concerned by the fact that the poorest families can't receive the parental leave benefits in the bill, and will you seek to address that and make changes to the bill so that they can be included?