Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I know there was a report just released. I'll have to get the details of it for the members of the committee. It was a report that contrasted statistically the numbers had the government invested the money in a national child care program, the increased number of jobs

Status of Women committee  I believe I appeared before the committee to speak on the Public Sector Equitable Compensation Act. It was implemented in the Budget Implementation Act and enacted on March 12 of this year. It was all very recent, and we don't yet have any numbers to base an analysis on. With r

Status of Women committee  Just on the medical school comment, highlighting the difference, I've never been to medical school. I have, however, been to law school. We were talking about that earlier on, about the number of women entering professions, going to university, getting their degrees in law or get

Status of Women committee  I certainly think we need to ensure that those work environments are free of harassment and free of racism, including institutionalized racism. A good example of that would be some of the language we try to negotiate in our collective agreements, language that is reflective of tr

Status of Women committee  Yes, and we would like to see those recommendations implemented with a higher percentage of equity group members in the workplace that is reflective of the availability of racialized workers, aboriginal workers, and workers with disabilities.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Desnoyers. I shall answer in English because I am a little faster in English. With the statistics that we used from the current public service, the statistics related to women who currently work for the public service, those statistics actually come fro

Status of Women committee  One thing, just very quickly, would be the recommendations of the Perinbam report that were never implemented.

Status of Women committee  I will be presenting.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Thank you, honourable members of the committee, for inviting us to come today. I am joined by Allison Pilon, who is a colleague who works in our programs section as one of our employment equity officers at the PSAC. As most of you know, the PSAC represents approxima

Status of Women committee  As far as I know, employers continue to employ--unless they're in the auto sector. People are better paid in those jurisdictions. Women are better paid than they are in other jurisdictions where there is no proactive pay equity legislation, so they have a higher standard of livin

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Women are taxpayers.

Status of Women committee  From an organizational perspective, I think this is mean-spirited and punitive. I think this shows the true sentiment behind the government that wrote this piece of legislation. This isn't about improving pay equity, access to pay equity, or speeding up the pay equity process. It

Status of Women committee  Yes, it reduces the number of people who can actually file complaints and it eliminates their ability to file human rights complaints.

Status of Women committee  Sixty-two per cent of our members are women.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. With respect to the Pay Equity Task Force hearings that took place, I believe over a period of five years, there was an incredible number of briefs and information provided to the task force from the private sector. I believe that the private sector really doesn't val