Thank you, witnesses. You've set us up with some really good material that's going to be very helpful for our study. I appreciate your diving into the intention of our study, which is women's economic insecurity.
To the Status of Women witnesses, I note your condensation of some of the sad stories on the pay gap. Canada has the eighth-largest pay gap among OECD countries and that gap is between 26% and 32%, depending on whether it's part-time or full-time work. Given that, I'd like to know why Status of Women Canada didn't encourage the government to enact, and ensure that the government enacted, pay equity legislation. Given that the legislation was mostly written in 2014, why not do it right away instead of allowing the government to delay pay equity legislation until 2018?