Excellent. I will be sharing my time with Mr. Albas.
My question is for Minister Mihychuk.
One of the things we've heard when listening to what is making up the wage gap.... Part of it is the hourly wage, or the annual salary, and part of it is bonus compensation. We heard from Statistics Canada that they don't have the granularity to tell or get some transparency on what is happening there.
I know you are undertaking some EI reforms. You are probably working closely with your CRA counterparts. If there was a way of getting granularity on people's T4 slips or something, to break down the total compensation so you could plug the holes where discrimination is happening, that would be good.
I had the multiple sclerosis folks come by for a visit today. They told me that four times as many women as men are subject to MS. As part of that, a lot of times it is a recurring disease, so they have recurring absences in the workplace. The other side of what we have been looking at is why women leave the workplace. Sometimes it's disease; sometimes it's elder care. Any way we can make an adjustment or a reform in the EI system to help compensate for that would be great.
Perhaps you could comment.