Mr. Speaker, according to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, wage parity is a fundamental human right that is linked directly to equality and the dignity of all human beings.
Unfortunately, in Canada at the moment, there is a real lack of desire to recognize the fact that women's work is underpaid. It makes no sense to have Canada strutting about since 1977 crowing over its support for wage parity, but unable to implement it in institutions under its jurisdiction and even avoiding itself the application of its own law.
The Bloc Quebecois strongly decries the situation of thousands of women whose work is not compensated at its true value and calls on the government to fight this social injustice, that has dragged on for far too long already.