Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much for the presentations. I have a couple of comments and then maybe we can get your reflections back on them.
I want to thank you for bringing up one thing we have stumbled with a little bit on this committee. That is thinking we are solving the wage gap with pay equity, which gets us off the conversation around a human right and the fact that we're trying to implement—or at least I want to implement—pay equity legislation so that we have a process in place for all federally regulated employers so that they can implement pay equity and we can know whether they are getting there and how far they have to go and that kind of thing.
I'm not saying that because I don't think the other issues that make the wage gap are much more complicated. I think pay equity legislation is complicated but the wage gap is very complex. Sending a rocket to the moon is complicated, but you just have to follow the steps, I think, like rocket scientists or whatever. That's what I feel we have here with the Bilson report.
I'm not really sure what I'm saying except that I would like to have you reiterate some of those key pieces about the difference. I certainly am not someone who thinks we're going to implement pay equity legislation and then we're going to be able to tackle sexism and discrimination and all those variables that impact women's lives and vulnerable women's lives. Maybe you could talk about why this piece of work is so important to women and human rights.