One of the reasons why we adopted proactive legislation in Quebec and in Ontario is that the complaints-based system, which is still in effect in Canada, has not given us any results.
Some of the cases have dragged on for 15 and 20 years. When Bell telephone operators got pay equity, what did Bell Canada do except get to rid of all its telephone operators? In Quebec, one of the problems we had was that although the employers had four years to implement pay equity, most of them did not, and the Quebec commission was not efficient in terms of enforcing the law.
Not only should it go into effect as soon as possible, but there should.... Employers don't need more than two or three years to implement pay equity.