I'm going to address this to you, Ms. Laurendeau. When you appeared before this committee on June 16, 2009, on the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act, you testified that even the proactive processes in Quebec and Manitoba still leave issues of pay equity outside the collective bargaining process, and you referred to this as a fundamental change.
You also told the committee:
We must recognize that the forward thinking that they have experimented with in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba has produced results. Their legislation has produced positive results, but it still has growing pains when it comes to maintenance of pay equity.
Why do you think the government chose to rewrite the book instead of building on this foundation of proactive pay equity legislation that was already in place and adopted by those provinces, while still keeping pay equity separate from the collective bargaining process?