Thank you.
As far as I'm concerned, the consequences are quite clear. How many years now have we been waiting for action on pay equity? If this falls through in the next few months, the women of Canada at the federal level will not have pay equity. There will be two systems of pay equity for two different groups of people, which means that you will be removing pay equity as a human right. I cannot imagine anything worse. So, the consequences are huge. At the federal level, women, as you know, don't have the means to defend themselves, because their unions will be punished if they try to support a complaint. But when it comes time to pay wages, the union is on an equal footing with the employer. I simply can't understand the reasons for that. As I said earlier, the unions are not the ones that control the budgets or manage these companies; therefore, we have to separate negotiations on pay equity—given that it is a human right—from normal negotiations, which are ongoing.