Thank you very much.
Thank you, so much. I appreciate why you would have had to speak so quickly and why there is anxiousness.
We've heard fairly consistently—I think there have only been a couple of exceptions—to implement a proactive model; stop the reports, we have enough; and move forward.
With that in mind I would love.... You started going into this a little, Ms. Perron, so I wouldn't mind a little more detail on implementation. There is lots of complexity. My colleague last night did a wonderful job in saying that the concept of pay equity is quite simple and no one is going to disagree with it, but there is a lot of complexity in the implementation, particularly at the federal level.
From the examples we've seen, whether it's Ontario, Quebec, some of the things that have been done in other provinces like New Brunswick, and I'm sure other provinces have had it, and from anything you know of that's been done internationally, what advice would you have around some of the implementation aspects? There are a lot of different types of job classifications. How do we start working through some of that? What would be your advice around that?
Some federal bodies are big, and some small. Do we move a little more slowly on the small? What are the timelines we should be looking at or considering or thinking about as we're trying to put together that framework? What would be some of your advice around that?
I'm going to start with that and then I have a second part.