Mr. Speaker, I have a petition signed by approximately 300 people on behalf of the staff at the taxation centre in St. John's East-Stafford.
They are looking for equity in the issuance of pay equity cheques. More specific, term casual employees and casuals who have not been on current pay since July 1998 will not get their pay equity cheques until the fall, while other employees received their retroactive pay equity payments in April. All employees are due these retroactive payments and I do not see why they cannot all be paid at the same time.