Thank you, Madam Chair.
I understand some of the statements that are being made, but two wrongs don't make a right. The reality is that the Human Rights Commission, which has been dealing with all of these appeals, in fact stated that the legislation is ineffective because they haven't been able to deal with it. Women at Bell have now been fighting for 25 years, practically; the post office for as long. I know you say that there are others, more staff. It's still complaint based. It will take forever to do. The Human Rights Commission itself has said that.
While I understand that people talk about the cuts of the early 1990s, we can go on that little record for a long, long time. The reality is that we had found a $42 billion deficit. The cuts were made, but things were changed. On top of that, the former Prime Minister made a commitment to introduce legislation in the fall of 2005. Well, in the fall of 2005 we unfortunately went into an election.
That doesn't change the fact that two ministers and the former Prime Minister made that commitment. It doesn't change the fact that the current legislation, which is complaint based, is ineffective. It doesn't change the fact that the Human Rights Commission has said it doesn't work because they can't work with it. And it doesn't change the fact that two provinces have proactive legislation where in fact it is working, whereas the rest of the country doesn't.
Quite frankly, I think it's time to move on. Thank you.