Mr. Speaker, today the CBC communications union is releasing its gloomy report on sexual discrimination at this crown corporation.
This wage discrimination occurs at all levels and is the result of the methods used by the employer in assessing occupational categories, as well as its tendency to give men preference when assigning less precarious job status, and most particularly its pay raises to a small group of men.
The amounts in question are substantial. This federal crown corporation distributes $8.2 million annually on a discretionary basis.
The Bloc Québécois emphatically objects to this sexist and arbitrary method of individualized pay levels.
We are therefore calling upon the Minister of Canadian Heritage and the President of the Treasury Board, who is responsible for the Pay Equity Act, to remedy this unacceptable situation as promptly as possible.