Statement made on 24 February 2009 by Senator Joan Fraser
Hon. Joan Fraser:
Honourable senators, speaking of things that are tucked away in the budget, Professor Tom Flanagan, a long-time intimate and influential collaborator of the Prime Minister, commented in The Globe and Mail this morning on equal pay for work of equal value — the pay equity question. He said:
Equal value was one of those really bad ideas of the 1970s, like big hair, polyester leisure suits, wage and price controls, Petro-Canada.
He also writes, approvingly:
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty estimates that $4-billion has been wasted in this way.
Does this government really believe that pay equity is a waste of money?
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