Thank you, Madam Chair.
Members of the committee may remember that the Standing Committee on the Status of Women examined the pay equity task force report and recommended, at one time, that the recommendations be implemented.
If, Madam Chair, the researchers would like to go through and find it, they will discover that in fact the ministers of the day, Joe Fontana, Minister of Labour, and Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice, committed to bringing in draft legislation to implement the pay equity as recommended by the task force. I can't recall whether their commitment was to bring the legislation to this committee or not, but there was a commitment to draft the legislation and precipitate a discussion on it so that it, as an issue, could move forward.
I will be supporting this recommendation.