Status of Women committee  That is a very important question. I think the best answer is to take a look at which countries have been doing the most thorough and committed gender budgeting and then look at the very complex indicators that the UN, the World Economic Forum, and many other organizations have u

Status of Women committee  Could I actually answer the last point first? I think it's very illuminating.

Status of Women committee  Going back to the changes that were made in 1987, we used to have a rate structure that had something like 13 or 14 different income brackets, and they were very small, and they got larger very gradually. It resulted in a very smooth tax rate curve. When the 6% rate was jacked up

Status of Women committee  What's also missing is the transparency that you get even in the tax expenditure budget.

Status of Women committee  I would approach it a little bit differently. The concept of gender budgeting came out of the very same document that the concept of gender-based analysis came out of—namely, the “Platform for Action” that was adopted in Beijing in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women, he

Status of Women committee  I believe that once the full scale of the inequities in the tax system reach the public sphere, it could raise so many more questions than the government has gotten for a long time. To give you one example, Professor Philipps was talking about how the tax savings in income split

Status of Women committee  Do you mean variables in the population pertaining to gender allocation?

Status of Women committee  To go back again to income splitting, the government itself has estimated that it is going to spend $3.6 billion over the next six years on income splitting just for retirement income. We can do a gender analysis of that and see where that benefit is going to end up. In the pape

Status of Women committee  May I clarify? By funding problems, do you mean finding enough money for the federal government to do this work, or funding problems for women?

Status of Women committee  For the government to not engage in gender budgeting?

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chairperson and honourable members. I'm extremely happy to be here and have the opportunity to give you information that will hopefully assist you in deciding where you want to go with this study. The first point I would like to make is that discussion of the