Thank you, and thanks for having me as a guest on this committee.
I have a couple of questions, but I'm very interested in Ms. Chicha's comment about the implementation.
I'm picturing myself as a former business person with several employees under payroll in terms of how we would adjust to legislative change, knowing that we also have to stay in business. The pay equity commission in Quebec would be in place to help evaluate the delta between what you're paying and what you should be paying. Then you have four years to work your way into that through some type of a granting system. Am I understanding that correctly? Also, there would be four-year pay-down.
Is there a staged implementation to ease the burden on employers to get towards pay equity?