Mr. Speaker, the judgment of the tribunal on human rights has been appealed. It has been appealed for a very clear reason, for the reason of equity.
There was a previous judgment by the federal court concerning about 20,000 women and Bell Canada which used a certain methodology to determine what the payment should be. The tribunal has used a totally different methodology which our legal experts say is incorrect.
Are we going to use two different standards to pay two groups of women, one for the private sector and one for the public sector? Obviously that would be inequitable and that is why we asked the court to address the question.