Status of Women committee  I don't have, off the top.... I could provide you with the information as to how many cases are pending. Because there's a sequencing on the transitional measures, I could provide you in writing a summary of the cases and number of cases and how they're going to be dealt with as

Status of Women committee  It is clear that the public service staff relations board will have to bring up its capacity with additional resources. How they're going to be staffing will belong to them as an independent agency. Presumably they will tap into expertise that exists, but I cannot speak for them

Status of Women committee  As part of the establishment of the regulations, we also are working on an implementation plan to scout the various organizations, both in terms of the employers and also in terms of oversight bodies, to quantify the implementation cost. As you just pointed out, we know there m

Status of Women committee  Once we have final products, we will be happy to share them.

Status of Women committee  Your point is well taken. They are indeed present in terms of feedback. With respect to prevention models, we have used primarily the work done through the Bilson task force to educate ourselves on what have been the challenges within provinces. Also, I personally visited some p

Status of Women committee  It is clear that Ontario and Manitoba were the first ones to move towards a proactive regime. It is also fair to say that the Quebec government, based on those experiences, had improved on the model. We are hoping that with this current model we have resolved one of the issues t

Status of Women committee  Are you talking about the current system or the future system?

Status of Women committee  That is one of the things we are developing through the regulations. We want to make it so that the results of any equitable compensation assessment are made public when the time comes for people to have to decide whether to ratify the wages that have been negotiated. In terms o

Status of Women committee  It will be right when the ratification vote is to be held.

Status of Women committee  The agreement in principle on compensation will include, clearly, not buried in all kinds of other information, an equitable compensation assessment report. This will mean that people who are going to have to express their opinion on the agreement in principle will also express t

Status of Women committee  We have not started the process as such because, as I have already mentioned, we are still working on the regulations that will embed that kind of analysis in the collective bargaining process. We are just establishing the regulatory framework that will allow us to move forward i

Status of Women committee  All right. The question is about justifying...

Status of Women committee  The fundamental rights issues will be resolved proactively through the bargaining process and through ongoing transparency and accountability. That is the backbone of the new act. The idea is to ensure that, through a process that was held by the Supreme Court to be a protected p

Status of Women committee  The banks are not covered by the equitable compensation act. That's the first thing. The second thing is that if they were, there is a process within PSECA to deal with wage-setting, taking into consideration a non-unionized environment.

Status of Women committee  There are a couple of things. On the issue of the private sector, this legislation doesn't currently apply to the private sector.