Thank you, Madam Chair.
Continuing that line of thought, this is a topic we have discussed before at this committee. As Madam Smith has indicated, the current minister has suggested that in fact new legislation...new, as in this motion, suggests proactive pay equity legislation. We have pay equity legislation now; it exists. It really just needs to be implemented. To properly implement it, the minister has embarked on a proactive program to hire some 100 to 110 new inspectors, to have them on the job site making sure that the existing pay equity legislation, which is proactive and far-reaching, is properly implemented.
The second point, Madam Chair, is that the government response, I believe, and I could be corrected on this, to the fifth report of this committee—a response, in fact, by the former government—clearly outlined those same points, in 2005. I think if we were to check back to see what that government response says, it would echo these sentiments exactly.