Pay Equity committee  Yes, I think that is reasonable. The data show that nationally the gap is narrowing. As I stated earlier in my presentation, we honestly don't have our heads in the sand on this issue, because we do believe there is a problem. There is still a gap that needs to be addressed. We b

Pay Equity committee  It's around 400,000 to 450,000. Between the two of us, we constitute a large portion of the federally regulated employees.

Pay Equity committee  That's a great question. As for what we were really envisioning there when we raised that point, we were thinking largely of small and medium-sized enterprises. At FETCO, the companies we represent are very large and certainly have the models, the tools, and the resourcing in pla

Pay Equity committee  To answer that question, I don't actually have concrete data to say that it's x numbers of dollars to do this or x numbers of dollars to do that. I don't disagree with you. I believe you said that the train has left the station, and we've been researching this issue for many ye

Pay Equity committee  That's a great question. What I will say on behalf of the member organizations within the organization that I represent is that we are 18 large employers that are federal. Most, if not all, are heavily unionized. I don't know if Statistics Canada has run data on this, but from

Pay Equity committee  Yes, there are examples, and there's no denying they took a long time, and that's not great. We would like to see that improve. What we do wonder about is whether there are things we could consider to speed up those processes, to accelerate them, to make them more efficient, rath

Pay Equity committee  We also don't have that data at our fingertips right now. If it is information that would be of interest to the committee, we could certainly reach out to our members and ask them for that sort of information.

Pay Equity committee  Yes, there are two things. First, when we did our research in preparing for this presentation and in consulting with our member companies, we could find little evidence that suggested great success for the proactive model in reducing the wage gap. Second, the StatsCan present

Pay Equity committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good evening, everyone. Joining me today is Elizabeth Cameron, who is vice-chair of FETCO but also the vice-president of labour relations at Nav Canada, a federally regulated firm. I'll provide opening comments, and we will be both be available for questi