Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just want to remind everybody that we put $40 million in the budget to take care of pay equity and the new collective agreement. It was at the UNW's insistence and some Members of this House that we take pay equity off the table so we have taken it off the table. I think that is an absolute tragedy, quite frankly. That $25 million retroactivity and the $9 million of ongoing salaries that could go to our employees are simply not going to get. The UNW is not prepared to conclude an agreement with us on pay equity. Therefore, it is going to end up in the courts for the years to come and two new governments, as I said in my correspondence, are going to have to deal with that issue.
Yet this government has committed clearly the funds to do it, we want to put the money in the hands of our employees where it rightly belongs, we are certainly not going to take responsibility for it not going forward. That clearly lies, in my opinion, in the hands of the UNW executive, I fundamentally believe this issue is being driven by PSAC in Ottawa. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.