Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to our panellists this afternoon.
I have a couple of questions. The first is to Madame Rose. In the brief you gave us today, one of the bullet points in your observations is that while you recognize the gap is diminishing between men and women in terms of labour force participation and so on, you note that the wage gap is due in large part to wage discrimination. How do you qualify that?
In our studies on gender-based analysis, some of the early findings we had from a Statistics Canada panel in our opening meeting on this topic suggested that in fact things are coming together. Based on the wage rate gap, we're up to about 86% and continuing to narrow. What do you have that would qualify that statement--that it's still based on discrimination?