Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Madam Minister, we are pleased to have you here. I hope you are doing well.
I wanted to ask you some questions related to pay equity, but I will come back to that.
My first question is this. Your first mandate letter, after the election, called for a minimum wage of $15 per hour for people working in the federally regulated sector. The crisis revealed that the guardian angels or essential workers we heard so much about were, for the most part, the lowest-paid workers. The mandate you had makes so much sense.
In the main estimates, money was to be allocated to implement this amendment to the Labour Code.
Where are you in the process of increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour?