Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Welcome to the witnesses joining us for this study.
Ms. Chen, as you no doubt know, pay equity and university administration fall largely under the jurisdiction of Quebec and the provinces. Some federal programs address equity by imposing equity, diversity and inclusion criteria, without necessarily addressing pay equity per se.
I'd like to keep the focus on what falls under federal jurisdiction, including the federal contractors program, the three granting councils and the Canada research chairs program. I'm curious to hear your views.
As I see it, there is equity recognition for those who belong to under-represented groups, but are there really mechanisms to ensure pay equity in programs that the federal government is directly responsible for?