When you talk about pay equity, you are really talking about justice. And when you talk about justice, you are talking about rights. Rights should not be negotiable, especially since studies show that women are not good negotiators. So, if women have to defend their rights… Studies show that women's wages are 30 per cent lower than men's. That proves that they are not very good at negotiating their salary.
There will be victims, if things stay the way they are now. The victims will be the most vulnerable women. You talked about immigrant women. But, we could also talk about single mothers and go through a very long list of them. Now that the Court Challenges Program has been abolished, what kind of recourse will these women have? How will they be able to defend equity?