Quebec has one. Ontario had one. I'm absolutely in favour. The problem is that with the complaint-based situation, because a model of evaluation to establish what is comparable worth is fairly complicated, the burden of the proof is on the group or the individual who filed the complaint. And the experience on both the federal and Quebec levels when we had only the complaint-based was that it took 15 or 20 years to solve these cases, and that was in the public sector, where there were very strong unions fighting for it.
The experience we've had in Quebec as well is that while the unionized sector has made considerable progress in getting pay equity implemented and the child care sector also--and it was true in Ontario too, where they managed to get government to recognize that this was a publicly subsidized area and therefore the government was responsible for pay equity--there has been relatively little progress in the private sector.
So we need not only proactive pay equity plans, and I think the federal government needs to go ahead with this and show leadership, but we also need considerable work to provide the instruments and the mechanisms of enforcement for the non-unionized sector.
In countries like Sweden or Australia, which have reduced the pay gap between men and women, the reason they've done it is because they have nationwide bargaining and they reduce salary differentials across the board for everybody. That's a way to attack poverty.