Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the panel.
I'm going to start with a question to Oxfam. First of all, thank you so much for bringing Oxfam's international reputation to focus on a domestic campaign in Canada. It's a very good reality check for us that there's a lot of work to do right here on the ground.
Your feminist scorecard was just released yesterday, and in it Oxfam called out the Trudeau government, saying, “the government has disappointingly taken very few steps to ensure women’s work is fairly paid and equally valued.”
I also have your report from October, entitled “Shortchanged: Make Work Paid, Equal and Valued for Women”. That was a call from Oxfam to implement pay equity legislation, which the Canadian government committed to do some 40 years ago, and it still hasn't happened.
Are there any real barriers to the federal government's immediately implementing pay equity legislation? Have you heard any good rationale for waiting until 2018?