Status of Women committee  I mean the employees who have to vote on the collective agreements and the equitable compensation assessments.

Status of Women committee  No, they will vote on everything at the same time.

Status of Women committee  It would all be part of the same process.

Status of Women committee  The idea is to have a conversation together, as is done during proactive pay equity processes. Pay equity committees have both employer and union representatives, if we use Quebec as an example. The idea is to make sure that the conversation takes places wholly in one place and t

Status of Women committee  The employer and the bargaining agent...

Status of Women committee  The short answer to that is that there will be transparency, and the equitable compensation assessment will stand on its own, outside but attached to the collective agreement. In that way, people will be able to evaluate the process.

Status of Women committee  I will ask my colleague to answer the piece about the Canadian Labour Congress, because he has done extensive research on that. I would just say one thing, though, which is that for any other terms and conditions of employment, the notion of joint accountability between employe

Status of Women committee  That would be a little bit of a broad brush for me to say, but I suspect that because the market is contracting somewhat now, there will be an impact on wages. Whether all wages are going to go down, I don't think so, but their growth may be slowed momentarily somewhat. I would

Status of Women committee  The intention is certainly not to take any steps backwards. On the contrary, we want to replace an antiquated process, the complaints-based one, with the most forward-thinking of proactive programs. We must recognize that the forward thinking that they have experimented with in

Status of Women committee  I have two things to say on that. There will be pressure to slow the growth of wages. I think we have already experienced that in the past few months; that's a phenomenon that is pretty much generalized. As to whether or not wages are actually going to go down, as I said, their

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for asking that question. In fact, that is one of the aspects of this bill that seems hardest to explain. The complaints process taught us one thing: we have a collective bargaining process that is established under a labour relations act that imposes very cle

Status of Women committee  With regard to the regulations, we certainly want to make sure to clarify key elements of the implementation process. Certainly also—and I will ask my colleague to give you more details about this—we intend to hold broader consultations than we were able to when the bill was bein

Status of Women committee  We contributed to the Budget Implementation Act. It restricts the way in which policies are developed, for almost all these matters. That said—and I am serious when I say this—I do not mean that there was no consultation process. Once more, we continued to base ourselves on all

Status of Women committee  I can certainly check to see if there was draft legislation and if it is available. Honestly, I am not sure that there was. I do not know that, but I will certainly commit to checking. I will ask my colleague to deal with the question of the people we will meet with. We do not h

Status of Women committee  Budget acts are generally quite extensive. I cannot tell you if some kinds of bills are included more than others. In other areas, it has happened that other budget acts have included fundamental reforms related to other policies. As to whether it is normal or not, I can say that