Public Accounts committee  I think you've pointed to a number of initiatives that we're all working on, but I think the most important culture change is the leadership from the top—from the government, from our minister. Our minister is a very activist minister. She is really gung-ho. She's taken the cours

Public Accounts committee  You're absolutely right in terms of differentiating between the tool and the actual goal it's trying to achieve. In terms of gender-based analysis as a tool, we have one of the best in the world. We've modelled it after the Europeans. That's where the “plus” came from. It's not j

Public Accounts committee  We are working with the Canada School of Public Service in making our training, our online course, available as the core curriculum for all policy and program officers. They're going to be rolling it out for us, but I think you're referring to a study.

Public Accounts committee  No, we haven't talked to them about a study, but we can certainly explore that idea.

Public Accounts committee  I should clarify. The Statistics Canada project that I was talking about is the “Women in Canada” publications that we've been working on since—I can't remember the exact date—before 2009, I think, in terms of having reports on sex-disaggregated data for gender, with overall stat

Public Accounts committee  I believe so. I'll have to confirm it. I certainly know in the Alberta civil service all deputy ministers, ADMs, and senior management have to take this course. I'm not sure about the ministers, but we can get back to you on that.

Public Accounts committee  Yes, there was a departmental action plan that was tabled with this committee in 2009. This one is different. With the other one, we were starting out in terms of engaging with departments, and we had—

Public Accounts committee  In 2009 we had a phased implementation working with various departments. From 2009-15 that's what all of us did. We worked together with the departments. What we found was that we still need to continue to do that, work with departments, but we're adopting things like a cluster a

Public Accounts committee  Yes. For example, on page 3, where we're talking about having these various governance structures to monitor this, it's having the steering committee with the three of us meeting with folks, or having our champions network. Those are meetings that have started, and we're going to

Public Accounts committee  I think we are in the middle. The other countries look to us for examples of GBA. We've been sharing our GBA work with other countries as well as with the provinces. For example, Alberta has just established a new department of status of women. They have adopted our GBA course a

Public Accounts committee  Yes, in a way.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  I would say it's the various levers these countries use to achieve gender equality. It's part of policies, programs, and legislation—for example, having child care; having parental leave that is for fathers only, daddy quotas as they call them; quotas for women on boards; women i

Public Accounts committee  We actually work with Stats Canada on these Women in Canada chapters. There are 14 chapters and we work with various departments. Everybody pools the money together and we decide collectively in terms of the data that we need, which is aggregated statistics. That's something that

Public Accounts committee  What I would say is that it is mandatory for departments to tell PCO and tell the government in the MC process. In the Treasury Board submissions, they have to say if they've done a GBA, what the analysis is to back that up, and what was the impact. They have to explain. As my co