Thank you, Madam Chair, and I want to thank all of our witnesses for their testimony thus far.
I'd like to focus on the presentations from Treasury Board. First of all, in our last meeting, we had an opportunity to discuss the 2004 pay equity report with some of the authors. At the time, I asked a question about the fact that the Public Service Equitable Compensation Act, instead of “pay equity”, refers to “equitable compensation”.
In government, if you define a term, there's usually a reason for it. Can you share some of the rationale for the use of the term “equitable compensation” versus “pay equity” in the legislation?