Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much for being here today.
This is a very important review, and this committee is quite concerned. I think there's a real recognition and commitment to complete our work here, so we can let Parliament know what we've heard. I'm very encouraged by that commitment and glad you could make it today so we can wrap up our work today and Thursday. I do have some questions, though.
We heard from the Federally Regulated Employers—Transportation and Communications, a Mr. John Farrell, who came here. I asked him about the issue of market forces and about including them in the new act. In terms of the new act, he said he expected there would be a lot more pressure to press wages down, because of market forces and the reality we're in. He expects wages may very well go down.
I wonder if you had some thoughts on that. Do you expect wages for women in the public sector to indeed go down as a result of this act?