Status of Women committee  The Department of Justice doesn't necessarily have a whole suite of programs for Canadians directly, but we do have a lot of transfer payments to the provinces and territories on the programming side. For example, we have the aboriginal justice strategy, which has been very successful.

Status of Women committee  Yes, there's quite a bit. In any of the legislative drafting and reform to the Criminal Code and programs, there's a fair bit of consideration that goes into discussing the gender-based aspects of it. A lot of it is by virtue of the work done by policy analysts, who are usually content-specific people.

Status of Women committee  From our experience, it is a fairly active network led by Status of Women, in terms of having colleagues working in that area of endeavour who share quite broadly, so there is a degree of sharing. I can't really speak to how consistent it is, but there is a fair bit. For example, because of that network, I know we get called to come to different departments to present our common policy consideration tool and some of the other things that are being done, so there is sharing going on.

Status of Women committee  I agree that champions are important. At the Department of Justice, for example, we did have a champion. She retired a short while back. A new champion has not yet been appointed, but our senior assistant deputy minister of the policy sector, Donald Piragoff, has responsibility for the GBA unit, so in the interim he's taking on that role.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon, and thank you all for the opportunity to appear before you and to discuss Justice Canada's work regarding the implementation of gender-based analysis. My two colleagues here have sort of put the mannequins in the window, and I'm hopefully going to share with you how we dress these mannequins, with all its failings and successes.