I thank you for the work you've done promoting pay equity for women.
I just repeat our sense that when the government snuck this change in pay equity legislation into the Bill C-10 dumpster bill, they made a mistake, which we signalled at that moment. That's why I'm here. That's why we introduced a private member's bill--to correct that error, to reaffirm that pay equity is a human right, to set in place what for years commissions of experts have called for, which is a federal pay equity commission that will have a proactive mandate, plus a tribunal to deal with specific complaints.
We think this is the way forward. We think the way that the government has chosen turns pay equity into a labour relations matter and gives it to a commission that does not have the capacity to engage in proactive promotion of pay equity. I would have thought that this is the kind of project that your party, and you, should support given your record of verbal commitment on this issue.