Status of Women committee  I'm not sure, to be—

Status of Women committee  No, no; I think we have a substantive budget, so the answer is not necessarily more money but what we do with the money we have. And that's what we've been really focusing on—making sure that we try to get as many results, and positive results, as we can with what we're spending,

Status of Women committee  I'll just clarify that Status of Women Canada does not conduct gender-based audits. I had asked the commissioner if he was interested in meeting with us to discuss the situation, and he very kindly accepted, very quickly. We had a discussion about what he believed the issues mi

Status of Women committee  The gender audit has been completed. In fact, the commissioner has tabled with Minister Toews a 37-point action plan dealing with a series of recommendations in order to address those issues, yes.

Status of Women committee  At the officer level, there are always some contacts and relationships. Our policy officers always deal with departments as they are undertaking GBA, so I'm sure there were contacts. I wouldn't know specifically what they were.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  It wouldn't be a decision of the organization to change—

Status of Women committee  —or make a policy decision of that nature. But I would say that the current mandate is very flexible and very broad. It has allowed the minister, for example, to define her priorities as part of the RPP every year. When you've covered violence, economic security, and leadershi

Status of Women committee  No, I wouldn't mind commenting on it.

Status of Women committee  I think one of the things you may have noticed at Status of Women is that we have more men.

Status of Women committee  We do believe that gender equality is not a women's issue, it's a societal issue, and everybody is part of the solution. Through our gender-based analysis work, we have done some amazing things in the last few years within the federal family. Last year we developed, in-house ag

Status of Women committee  We are partnering with other organizations and we are getting some other departments interested in some of the work we do. I can't say whether it's something that would have happened separately if it hadn't happened together, but it was because of the first project that Status of

Status of Women committee  In terms of program dollars, like grants and contributions, definitely since 2007 there's been an incredible increase, almost double the programs and agencies. That's the money that goes out to organizations to fund projects in communities.

Status of Women committee  Since 2006-07.

Status of Women committee  One of the things that we're really, really proud of at Status of Women is the project that we funded three years ago for the creation of a network for shelters in Canada. One of the issues with shelters—as I'm sure you know if you've had someone close to you involved—is their ca