Of course, that legislation wouldn't be retroactive. We wouldn't actually be able to compensate all the women I think of who have worked in the public sector, even if it's the 30% referenced here, for that pay lost and that time lost.
It's interesting, too, that the postmasters union was actually successful in winning their pay equity court case, but they are now dealing with tens of thousands of claims because, for them, it was a 27-year battle to get some of that compensation. There's quite a lot going forward in terms of the actual implementation of that case and that win for them in terms of dealing with CRA, and they were actually able to get that retroactive pay.
In terms of a timeline, I think they quoted 42,000 claims that are problematic. For a much larger federal public sector, what would that look like for the federal government going forward, and would that significantly delay the benefits of the pay equity legislation, if it actually will be implemented in a reasonable amount of time?