When I started my presentation, I started talking about what pay equity means. I wouldn't want to assume what the government was intending by using that title, but we can see from the act that this is not pay equity. It is not achieving it in any way. Perhaps that's the only appropriate thing—that it's not actually called the Pay Equity Act or pay equity legislation. I don't pretend to understand their motivations, but we're certainly a long way from effective pay equity legislation.
On May 12th, 2009. See this statement in context.