Mr. Speaker, in 1978 the Trudeau government adopted the flawed concept of basing pay for civil servants on arbitrary assignments of value by bureaucrats and politicians. It misnamed it pay equity. Now the courts have said that the government has to pay $5 billion to correct the shoddy application of this flawed concept, and it is the taxpayers who are on the hook for the $5 billion.
I ask the Prime Minister where the equity and fairness are in that?