Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely. Another area of responsibility is the implementation of gender-based analysis across the federal government. A third area of responsibility is to gather information that will allow us to make informed decisions to assist our colleagues across federal departments

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's right.

Status of Women committee  It is, yes.

Status of Women committee  The answer to that would be on how effective the 16 are to begin with, and I'm not going to try to evaluate or answer to a decision the government has made. But I know that having an office--

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  Possibly, if it's requested. But I wasn't there at the time, so I wouldn't be able to respond to that. But to respond generally about regional offices, because I've managed many regional grants and contribution programs and other types of programs, when I was secretary general

Status of Women committee  But I've looked into the historical information, and I think some of those offices were down to one person. So to have one person in a location wouldn't necessarily create a better service.

Status of Women committee  I think there were two offices. I don't have the specific information. I'm sure we can get that.

Status of Women committee  Certainly, the numbers. Yes.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll give copies of my notes for the interpreters. I welcome this opportunity today to introduce myself to the members of this committee and to respond to questions you may have regarding my experience, skills and vision as the newly appointed coordinator

Status of Women committee  I will make myself available.

Status of Women committee  I'm available to stay, if you'd like to do it now, or if you want to do it another time, that's fine.

Status of Women committee  Yes, several Quebec NGOs participated in the UN meeting. I'm not sure how many exactly, but I know that over 120 Canadian agencies participated.

Status of Women committee  The main difference in the supplementaries this year would include a re-profiling of $1 million that had been done two years ago. There had been $2 million re-profiled, one in 2009-10 and one in 2010-11, so that would be reflected in these supplementaries. There is of course the