It's pretty broad. On the one hand, PSECA takes away the rights of unions to advocate on behalf of our members who may be experiencing pay equity gaps. On the other hand, those members can file complaints against their union even though it's eliminated all the tools for us to be able to resolve those issues.
It's because of forcing this to the bargaining table that there is suddenly no focus on the human right but rather a focus on interests. Pay equity should never be an interest. It is clearly upheld as a Canadian human right and therefore, as my sister and colleague Robyn Benson said, you can't bargain away a human right. To allow that to happen...and I could go as far as to say you have a male-dominated industry negotiating with another male-dominated industry on issues such as pay equity. It doesn't put the right voices at the table to prevent further human rights violations.
By taking this away from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, you eliminate that expertise. You now have a very similar process ongoing without the expertise and the resources of the unions to support these people. That results in a David versus Goliath scenario where David is simply incapable of fighting Goliath on pay equity. We are never going to achieve pay equity and uphold pay equity as a human right in this environment.