Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
To start out, thank you, everyone, for your comments here.
Having listened to testimony from the Human Rights Commission just prior to this, I want to pick up on some of the things they spoke about that were also reflected in the comments here.
In regard to one of the 2004 recommendations about the onus being placed on the employer to establish or achieve pay equity, I'm wondering if both of you could comment on what role bargaining agents and employees might play in that process as well, and also on the adjudication of what is an equal wage for work of equal value so that it is similar or parallel across sectors and different work types.
There was a comment made earlier about the role of bargaining in maintaining pay equity in the workplace. I wonder if you might comment on that and, once pay equity has been established, if you see any relevance to bargaining as maintaining pay equity in the workplace. Maybe that speaks to the dispute resolution mechanism you've talked about.