Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Mr. Giroux, you answered a question earlier about pay equity. We had said that the Pay Equity Act does not yet do anything to address the consequences for older women. As women often live longer than men, they find themselves on their own and have not built up savings to the extent that men have.
In your brief, you said that parliamentarians may wish to encourage the federal government to provide estimates of expected increases to federal public service employee salaries, along with analysis of potential impacts on pensions and other future benefits, including for women.
Why is it important for parliamentarians to have access to these data?
If a cost analysis were carried out, what impact might it have on our work as parliamentarians?