Finance committee  You mentioned a number of surveys and studies. Are there any specifics around costs or service disparities that may indeed have been the impetus for those banks to move?

Finance committee  Currently, what's the balance between the not-for-profit and...?

Finance committee  Ms. Doucet, thank you very much for your presentation. I have a couple of questions regarding your comparison outside of Quebec, meaning the rest of the country—

Finance committee  There are no territories in the data.

Finance committee  I just want to follow up on what Tom was saying. Sometimes I think we have to look at where we've come from to realize how far we've come. In 1979, we had 48 hours' notice when we had a baby. I had to make a decision about whether to quit work and stay home or go back to work on

Finance committee  I can assure Mr. Julian that it wasn't thrown in lightly. There was a lot of thought behind this. To Mr. James's point, there are three elements to this. As you know, there's been an announcement that Minister Duclos will be making the announcement this week that will provide a

Finance committee  So 24,000 women will not necessarily be able to participate in this, but their colleagues, because they have 11 employees, will.

Finance committee  If I understand you correctly, if they're in organizations with under 10 people, they may never find out.

Finance committee  Right.

Finance committee  Under this process, approximately 24,000 women would be outside the realm of accessing pay equity.

Finance committee  But if their employer has 12 people, they would be in.

Finance committee  I'm just wondering where the “10” threshold came from. Maybe it was arbitrary. Was there any statistical analysis done on why that threshold, or if there even should be a threshold?

Finance committee  Okay. That's fine.

Finance committee  Thank you. I remember dealing with this issue in child care about 25 years ago. I haven't checked in for some time, but I'm sure it's still going on. I notice, in your remarks as well as in the overview, that organizations with fewer than 10 employees are exempt. Is that correc

Finance committee  I have two questions. One, can they voluntarily go through the process? There are lots of small organizations out there that I think, indeed, would want to do that. Also, do we know how many federally regulated organizations there are with fewer than 10 employees? Are there two