The strike is on.

The Canadian women's soccer team boycotted training Saturday ahead of emergency talks with Canada Soccer in Florida. And captain Christine Sinclair says she and her teammates won't take the field until the governing body responds to their grievances.

"Until things move forward, I don't know what's going to happen. But we're not playing," Sinclair told The Canadian Press.

Sinclair says the "non-negotiables" include seeing the budget breakdown from last year as well as a compensation offer. She says Canada Soccer took its last offer off the table, saying it had to be restructured.

Canada Soccer traditionally publishes its financials in March. But Sinclair says the women's team can't negotiate in the dark without knowing what was spent on the men's team.

The clock is ticking with the Canadian women, the current Olympic champions and sixth-ranked team in the world, slated to face the top-ranked United States on Feb. 16 to open the four-team SheBelieves Cup in Orlando.

In 2021, Canada Soccer says it spent $11 million on the men's team and $5.1 on the women.

The women are scheduled to meet Saturday with Canada soccer president Nick Bontis, general secretary Earl Cochrane and the governing body's legal counsel.

The women took part in two training sessions in Florida — with some wearing their shirts inside out as a protest — before deciding to take job action Friday.

Sinclair says the men's team is solidly behind the women. Both sides are upset at budget cuts to their program, and what they say is lack of financial transparency by Canada Soccer.

"We're fighting for the future of this program," said Sinclair.

The men boycotted a planned friendly with Panama in Vancouver last June over the labour dispute.

Both sides are currently negotiating labour agreements with Canada Soccer. The women's previous deal expired at the end of 2021.

The men are negotiating their first formal agreement in the wake of forming their own players association, the Canada Men's National Soccer Team Players Association.

The women have their own group, the Canadian Soccer Players' Association.

The ongoing labour boiled over Friday with threats of job action from the women and a call for Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge to step in from the men.

"Enough is enough. As a team, we've decided to take job action and from this moment on we'll not be participating in any Canadian Soccer Association activities until this is resolved," Sinclair told TSN. "Whether that's training, whether that's games."

"With the biggest tournament in women's football history less than six months away, our preparation for the World Cup and the future success of the women's national team's program are being compromised by Canada Soccer's continued inability to support its national teams," the women said in a statement posted on social media.

"Despite our strong track record of success and history-making achievements for more than a decade, we continue to be told there is not enough money to adequately fund our program and our youth teams."

Both teams have been embroiled in labour talks for months with Canada Soccer. The Canadian men refused to play a planned friendly in Vancouver last summer because of their unhappiness at the state of the negotiations, which included division of prize money from the men's World Cup in Qatar.

The women say the number of players and staff coming to camp has been cut, as have training camp days.

"We have been told, quite literally, that Canada Soccer cannot adequately fund the women's national team, and they have waited to tell us this until now, when we are less than six months from the World Cup."

Hours after the separate letters by the men's and women's teams, Canada Soccer responded in its own statement saying it has a proven track record of supporting women's soccer. 

"Pay equity for our Women's National Team is at the core of our ongoing player negotiations. Canada Soccer will not agree to any deal without it," the statement said.

"That is why, after months of negotiations with our Women's National Team and their legal counsel, Canada Soccer already issued a mutually-agreed to retroactive payment."

A source with knowledge on the matter confirmed to CBC Sports the retroactive pay was in the $1.7-million range, an amount that was requested by the players union during their ongoing negotiations.

Canada Soccer also says it presented an "equity-based proposal" for the national teams several months ago and are waiting for a response to the terms of that proposal.

The SheBelieves Cup is part of Canada's preparation for the World Cup, which begins July 20 in Australia and New Zealand.