Finance committee  We're working on the regulations now. As to when they will be prepublished, that will all depend on Treasury Board dates, as you can appreciate, but we are in the drafting room now and hope to move these forward as soon as possible.

Finance committee  Currently we collect annualized salary, so instead, now what we're doing is asking for components of the salary that allow us to calculate an hourly wage gap. In addition, we'll be collecting bonus information and overtime information.

Finance committee  No, it doesn't include the benefits.

Finance committee  No.

Finance committee  No, we won't be including any of that. What we're looking at is trying to boil down to the hourly wage rate and then comparing those males against females as well as against the other three designated groups within the Employment Equity Act.

Finance committee  We could, but we would have to go back and change our regulations yet again—but, yes, potentially in the future. However, what we're doing is we're modelling on some work that's been done in the U.K. as well as what's happening in other parts of the world. We're starting with thi

Finance committee  The way that we collect the data under the Employment Equity Act is actually by collecting against what we call “employment equity occupational groups”. We've basically broken the workforce down into 14 strata, so you do know who are senior managers, clerical staff. Again, it's 1

Finance committee  Correct.

Finance committee  Absolutely. We've been out consulting throughout the process. We just completed seven in-person consultations. We invited 2,200 participants. We had approximately 260 who attended those. Then we went out with a further online consultation. Using the findings of our in-person, we

Finance committee  We work with the privacy group always throughout this process. However, what we're doing is changing the way we collect the information, but we already collect the salary information from these employers. It's really just changing it. We have worked with privacy in the past and w

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  We did put out a call. Our online consultation was open to everyone. I'm just looking to Sharmin. I know we did have some input from some of the human resources groups. I'm not sure if that group specifically provided input.

Finance committee  Certainly.

Finance committee  Absolutely. Again, when we go out and do our consultations, that is a group that we reach out to for the most part. We do reach out to the CEOs as well as the employers, but also the HR groups.

Finance committee  Good afternoon.