Status of Women committee  I should have introduced Vaughn Charlton, who is the GBA manager at Status of Women.

Status of Women committee  Please continue.

Status of Women committee  Actually, could you pass that to Lucie?

Status of Women committee  We at Status of Women are certainly working with universities and will be doing more so, as we continue to develop a research plan with the new funding from the main estimates from budget 2016. It's also part of the GBA action plan, and I believe our response to you is that we would be working with universities to ensure that they are aware that our GBA+ training is available online to all of their students.

Status of Women committee  They were the themes that we've discussed at this committee before, so training, access to data, and certainly needing to spread out the information about how to do gender-based analysis throughout the departments, the cultural shift that's required. Those were the kinds of things that were highlighted and that the departments over the past year have been working very hard to address.

Status of Women committee  Yes, we did do that survey. We didn't go to every single department and agency, but we did get very thorough responses. In fact, we were able to follow up. Now remember, we did this survey for the year 2014-15, so we don't have results from this past year. It was a practice run at getting those kinds of results, and it certainly shone a spotlight on some areas that needed some work.

Status of Women committee  As I mentioned earlier, we get a lot of questions. We're networking with department officials at all different levels on a memorandum to cabinet at every level of the organization, but very importantly, we're also working on the downstream parts of gender-based analysis so that when the Treasury Board submissions come, and when evaluations are done, you can really make sure the right questions will be asked about gender at all stages of the policy and program implementation.

Status of Women committee  It means we are run off our feet, our phones are ringing off the hook, and departments are asking us—often at the very early stages of thinking on a new policy—how they should think about GBA. Most important and exciting, I think, from our perspective, is that not only are they digging harder for data—sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not—but they are doing much better GBAs.

Status of Women committee  It varies from department to department, but there's a great conversation going on in the government right now about being able to report better on its results and outcomes. We're certainly encouraging departments to consider gender and diversity as they think about their outcomes framework.

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure if you're hearing from the Privy Council Office in this committee. Yes? Okay. They will be able to answer that with a greater level of detail, but as per the action plan following the Auditor General's report, they have committed to making a checklist. It's just to ensure a more robust GBA is done at the point of the memorandum to cabinet or the policy proposal.

Status of Women committee  I would just add that the Auditor General's report did make us rethink our GBA capacity. It's really something that we need to do and support throughout the entire agency, including in all of the policy work that we do, in the support for our minister, and in memoranda to cabinet.

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure where that name came from.

Status of Women committee  In terms of GBA champions across the department?

Status of Women committee  Very recently our minister wrote to her colleagues about the importance of GBA. A letter similar to that went out at the deputy minister level. We have a network of GBA champions, and they just had a meeting yesterday and committed to meeting more often, meaning at least twice a year if not more.

Status of Women committee  Yes. It was part of the request that went in and part of the money that will be coming to Status of Women as part of budget 2016. Status of Women got $23.1 million over five years, with $3 million in the first year and $5 million ongoing. That will not all go to GBA-proper analysis.