Thank you, Chair.
I'm the representative for the New Democratic Party on the committee. Thank you to both witnesses for your work.
My first question is for Ms. Halperin-Kaddari from the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women.
Your report is really timely because it is only every five years that the UN looks at Canada's fulfillment of its international commitments around elimination of discrimination against women. This is a particularly helpful document for our study.
I want to focus first on the pay equity testimony and the concerns that UN CEDAW has raised about our government's failure to legislate pay equity. It was 40 years ago that our government made that commitment internationally, and it still hasn't happened. Can you elaborate on some of the statistics, where Canada sits in the world standings, and is there any hope of tightening or eliminating that gap in the absence of a legislated solution?