Mr. Speaker, between May 31 and June 11 the federal court will hear the appeal by the government of the decision made by the Human Rights Tribunal on pay equity.
The scorn heaped by the President of the Treasury Board on his employees is shameful, and becoming more apparent daily. While he spends millions of taxpayers' dollars in legal costs of all sorts, he has the gall to cite excessive costs as the reason for his refusal to comply with the latest decision by the tribunal on pay equity.
The President of the Treasury Board should be ashamed of treating his employees this way. The worst of it is that pay equity is not an isolated incident; nothing of the sort.
Although they have the legitimate right to strike, these employees are being forced to return to work by a government that dared do so with special legislation passed behind closed doors.
It also passed legislation allowing it to brazenly dip into the surpluses of the public service employees' pension funds.
What bounds are there to the government's scorn for the legitimate rights of its employees? It ought to take a look to see whether the President of Treasury Board is not at war with his employees.