Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to both witnesses for being here today. Your opening testimony was great, although eye-opening, for sure.
I want to get back to Dr. Smith.
In your opening remarks, you talked about using an equity lens and then about the importance of an intersectional lens. I took your point very well when you described the statistics, research and information you were presenting. It seems there's consistency in the fact that racialized women, disabled women and other subgroups are experiencing a lack of pay equity—systematically so, by the sound of it in your testimony.
What I want to ask you, though, is this: In your opening remarks, you were talking about this, and you were getting to the point of saying discrimination is a factor. Then you were cut off because of time. I want you to go back to that point and finish what you were saying.
How do you know discrimination is a factor? I'm not disagreeing with you by asking that question at all. I think it is, and we need to acknowledge it. I want to give you the opportunity to finish what you were saying and make your points about why discrimination is a factor.