Status of Women committee  It would not be appropriate for me to talk about the council's discussions...

Status of Women committee  ... but I believe they generally take note of work that has been done. Not everyone believes that laws are the most effective means. This is an issue of international debate. Studies have shown that regardless of the use of laws and implementation of strategies, what's important

Status of Women committee  Are you talking about the website?

Status of Women committee  Yes. Different types of information are available for different target groups, so if you're a coach, there's information on the website that you can access. Apart from these, over the years we've supported very important data-gathering projects. We know that in order to support

Status of Women committee  I think there is some misunderstanding about gender-based analysis. It is an analytical process used to look at various files. It can be applied to research projects or to...

Status of Women committee  Pardon?

Status of Women committee  I do not have an answer on a report. Bear in mind that using gender-based analysis is an iterative process. It is used to develop federal government programming, legislation and policies. The progress that we have noted is in the way in which the policies are evolving. What I me

Status of Women committee  I can start, and I'll let my colleague complete it if she wants to. We try to make our resources available through our website. I just mentioned the course on gender-based analysis. One of the goals was to make it universally accessible so that it can be used not only by federal

Status of Women committee  I would be happy to.

Status of Women committee  It would be accessible. I think that as a practice it would be geared more to university students interested in this type of analysis, but yes, it's on the Status of Women Canada website. The minister mentioned this when she appeared, but we've developed a website that addresses

Status of Women committee  I imagine that this question is for me again. We are currently working on implementing the departmental action plan on gender-based analysis. Concerning the measurement of results, I would like to talk to you about the progress we have made in gender-based analysis, or GBA. Sinc

Status of Women committee  Thanks for the question. I think it's a very important file. The first thing we do is support the minister with our advisory council for participation of women on boards. This is an advisory council that was announced through economic action plan 2012. There have already been t

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  With respect to your second question, I would say that through the promotion of gender-based analysis and its wide use by government departments, we're helping our federal partners ensure that they take gender and diversity into account whenever they develop policies and programs

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  With respect to a gender unit at Aboriginal Affairs, we've been working over the past three years with 25 departments and Aboriginal Affairs was one of them. They built their internal capacity to be able to apply gender-based analysis, and currently this function is co-located in

Special Committee on Indigenous Women committee  We play very different roles. I'd like to mention that some of the departments you've mentioned, such as Justice and Public Safety, this year are part of our.... We have targeted those departments for the implementation of gender-based analysis. This year, quite interestingly,