Pay Equity committee  Yes.

Pay Equity committee  I'd add one point that you may find as useful information. Subsequent to the release of the Bilson task force report, there was a case that made its way to the Supreme of Canada. Mowat, I believe, was the name of the case, and the result of that case is that complainants are no l

Pay Equity committee  Thank you for that clarification because those three models exist in Canada, and I think for sure we should be looking to those models. It doesn't mean that we should be excluding other models as well. I think I'll defer to my colleague Ms. Keith who can respond to that question.

Pay Equity committee  I think you wanted some details on what would happen in that proactive model and how it would actually unfold. Is that...?

Pay Equity committee  Sorry, I didn't catch the last part. To not have a human right...?

Pay Equity committee  I'll begin the answer and defer to my colleagues if they'd like to add. The collective bargaining process involves trade-offs. We don't believe the human right of pay equity should be subject to trade-offs. To be clear, it's not that we're saying unions and management shouldn't h

Pay Equity committee  I think you've hit on most of the major concerns we would have and that we've discussed in the past, beginning with the “Time for Action” report in 2001, and it is issues around the length of time and the complexity of the evidence. These cases can become emotionally charged for

Pay Equity committee  We indicated publicly after the release of the Bilson task force report that we adopted the recommendations in those reports. We would echo and support the advice given by Professor Bilson and her colleagues at that time. We believe again that it is a much less painful process fo

Pay Equity committee  That is correct.

Pay Equity committee  A complaint, that's right.

Pay Equity committee  Yes. We would describe it more as reactive, and as you can imagine, a bit uneven as well, because you can have one employer in one industry facing a complaint and then having to remedy that particular complaint, whereas other organizations in the same industry are not facing the

Pay Equity committee  That is correct.

Pay Equity committee  Absolutely.

Pay Equity committee  Thank you.

Pay Equity committee  It's the will of Parliament, of course...who should be dealing with it. We do have experience, as you may know, under the Employment Equity Act, which is a proactive model. The Canadian Human Rights Commission has the mandate to audit employers for compliance with the Employmen