I certainly feel quite strongly that we need to have the pay equity legislation enacted yesterday. For care workers, many of them are covered under provincial and territorial labour legislation, so we would need to have some legislative action there. However, federal leadership in raising the minimum wage and bringing in proactive pay equity is super important to helping usher in changes at the provincial and territorial level.
The way that we raise the wages and the way that we address the poor working conditions and the undervaluing of care workers and child care in health care, home care and long-term care is to really examine and have a coherent strategy. I do think back to the previous question about enshrining the right to care in legislation and connecting investments with it and recognizing in that law that quality care depends upon decent work, working conditions and wages for care workers. Uruguay did it.