Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Minister, let me start by saying that I appreciate very much that you are giving agency to the members of this committee to make our own decisions and our own choices when it comes to legislation. I think it is very important that the legislative branch be able to make those decisions. Thank you very much for making sure we're able to do that.
Can you go into a little more detail about the earlier question about the wage gap? In the 42nd Parliament, I was chair of the pay equity special committee. Out of that, as you know, we finally have, for the first time, after 40 years of feminist groups trying, pay equity legislation at the federal level. Pay equity itself is not the whole story on the wage gap. There are also women's caregiving responsibilities, the fact that women-owned businesses aren't able to scale up as quickly on entrepreneurship, and the fact that when women face violence, they often also face economic abuse. There are many things that create barriers that contribute to that wage gap. I wonder if you could address what we're doing, broadly, on the gender wage gap.