Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to the minister and the departmental officials.
Clearly, there's a lot of frustration. It was only a few months ago that we were celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Pay equity was mentioned then. In 1977, equal pay for equal work was enshrined in the Canadian Human Rights Act. Then, of course, we had to wait until 2018 for legislation to be introduced on pay equity. We've now waited an additional three years for regulations to come into play. These were promised in January. When I asked the question in the House, we were told it would be later in the fall. You've repeated that again today.
You've also said that this is a moral and economic imperative. For me, this is a clear and continued violation of human rights. Women are not paid equally for work of equal value in those federally regulated workplaces.
When you say later in the fall, that vagueness is extremely unhelpful. Do you have any more of a specific date that you could provide this committee, that you know of,when we would actually stop violating those human rights?