Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. Yes, we've been doing gender-based analysis, in some sense, without using the word, for a very long time. In doing the child tax benefit, for example, or changing the child care expense deduction, and things of that nature, we've always been conducting gender-based analysis.

Status of Women committee  I've been working on this issue for nearly two years, since 2005.

Status of Women committee  The work we did with Status of Women was first to develop the expertise to conduct gender-based analysis. We had to train the analysts. Part of the work consisted in making the analysts understand that policy development had to include a gender-based analysis component. That was a large part of the work.

Status of Women committee  Yes. A number of us at the Department of Finance, including me in particular as coordinator, have meetings with the Status of Women people to examine certain questions with them. Status of Women thus acts with other departments as well. That's being done more and more, I believe.