Mr. Speaker, the Federal Court of Appeal has overturned Justice Muldoon's decision preventing seven complaints filed against Bell Canada to be heard before a Canadian human rights tribunal.
At the heart of that dispute is the question of pay equity. Over the past 13 years the federal government has been embroiled in its own pay equity dispute with approximately 190,000, mostly low income, female workers.
The Muldoon decision was thrown out. Yet the government continues to refuse to drop the appeal and pay these workers the long awaited benefits they rightly deserve.
The government has thus far spent $142 million on a useless gun registry yet continues to ignore the pleas of our dedicated, hard working federal public servants. It is time the government lives up to its commitment by resolving this longstanding dispute.