I want to thank the committee too. I must say I have served in opposition, I've served in government, and I've been on parliamentary committees a lot over the years. This one seems to have a good sense of co-operation, collaboration, and non-partisanship. I think that's great. We do value the work of parliamentary committees and we look forward to the results of this.
I'll leave you with a couple of points. Pay equity reform is only part of the solution to the gender wage gap. Minister Hajdu pointed out some of the other areas, and I think we've had some discussion in terms of how to close that gap. Pay equity is part of that. Certainly any pay equity reform needs to manage the complexity both on the policy side but also on the implementation side.
We as politicians tend to focus 90% of our effort on policy and about 10% on implementation. That's why a lot of times we get great policy and lousy implementation, and we need to get the implementation right on this. It's really important even for the classification of jobs and these things. There are enormous complexities to this, and your work can actually help, including the choice of evaluation tools over the long term and having some flexibility in those.
Lastly, on the issue of compliance, in a proactive model the expectation will be that all employers comply within established time frames. The experience in other jurisdictions indicates that non-compliance is a significant problem. I'd like us to understand where that non-compliance is and what's generating it. Let's not ignore challenges in terms of the implementation in other jurisdictions, and let's be honest about what the challenges are here and deal with them as we move forward. If we don't, then this will be an exercise in policy, and again, getting the implementation of this is critically important because I think we all broadly agree on the policy imperative.
Thank you very much for the opportunity to be here and I look forward to your report and to working with you as we move forward as a Parliament on this.