I would like to thank my colleague across the way and the witnesses for being here today. It's wonderful to hear the Conservatives finally onside with pay equity, because they did vote against this in the budget implementation act. It's great that my colleagues are onside with this very important act.
Mr. Giroux, before our government passed the Pay Equity Act, women who felt they were being underpaid compared to their male counterparts were required to make a complaint under the Canadian Human Rights Act, and despite this system many women continued to be underpaid. In 2019 for every dollar a man earned in Canada, we know that women only earned 89ยข, as measured in hourly wages for full-time workers. Could you speak to the differences between the previous complaint-based system and the new proactive pay equity system that our government will bring into force in 2021?