The question of cost comes up all the time. It's a legitimate concern. It depends upon whether you're talking about the cost of the process to implement pay equity or the cost of the redress or the pay adjustments. Obviously, the more women are being discriminated against, the more costly it is to redress that discrimination.
We've tried in CUPE to assess and have estimates, but it's really difficult to do, because it really depends.... You try to assess the cost as a percentage of a payroll—things like that—but where you start from really depends upon the composition of the groups and whether there were already job evaluations in place or not.
We cannot come up with a figure that will be relevant, really. We tried and we can't do it.