Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to come back to this notion of market forces. The PSECA talks about using market forces in order to evaluate compensation.
Mr. Farrell, Mr. Olsen, in your brief you suggest that market forces are integral to the determination of equitable compensation. Yet we've heard from the trade unions and other experts that market forces are not conducive to ensuring pay equity because the market forces in place have historically undervalued women's work. And I'm thinking about nurses, ESL teachers, telephone operators, secretaries, bank tellers, child care workers, and retail workers who traditionally have lower levels of pay.
With that in mind, how on earth could you consider market forces being a positive? Are they not harmful in determining women's compensation?