Status of Women committee  Yes. In the budget-making process, departments produce MCs, which now have to have the GBA, and then the Department of Finance does its own analysis as well in producing this. Absolutely, it's because of all the GBAs that are being done. There are some areas that we know aren't done as well as they could be or should be, but to me it's a direct result of it.

Status of Women committee  My minister's mandate letter has five commitments that deal with GBA. She has to report on that, which means that gives us the lever to go to other departments and ask them to work with us. As I said, now we're in demand. We're working with everybody. There's a desire from everybody.

Status of Women committee  As you said, it is an independent inquiry. The government has basically turned it over to the commissioners to conduct this inquiry in the way they see appropriate. In terms of tracking what the inquiry is doing, we work together with the three departments at various levels—the working level, the deputy level, and then the ministerial level.

Status of Women committee  I was telling some of the members before the committee started that we are absolutely delighted from a public policy perspective to have this gender statement, and not as an add-on but as an actual chapter in the budget. It really is historic. There's a lot of work to do in terms of improving it for next year and the years after.

Status of Women committee  We'll take a look and get back to you because I'm not sure. As Anik said, it's usually through the main estimates, and this is the process coming through this committee on the status of women, but I'm not sure about that other bill so we'll look into it and get back to you.

Status of Women committee  You probably know we work with Stats Canada, and we have a publication called “Women in Canada”, which has various chapters that come out over a period of years. I don't know the latest chapter that has just come out. We have 20 departments that fund this along with us, and we pick various chapters.

Status of Women committee  I'd like my colleague Justine to answer that.

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure. Was it Bill C-24?

Status of Women committee  Yes, I'm not sure.

Status of Women committee  Last summer we carried out the consultations with Minister Hajdu on the gender-based violence strategy, where we went across the country and heard from experts and stakeholders and survivors, which is informing our federal strategy on gender-based violence. We also participated in the pre-inquiry on the murdered and missing indigenous women and girls.

Status of Women committee  If I may, I'll elaborate on that. Internal services as defined by Treasury Board are all the usual things you might think of, such as HR, IT, financing, and communications. The ministers' office budgets also are under that. When we increased our size from last year's budget investment, we needed those people.

Status of Women committee  What we have put in our departmental plan is that Status of Women has the lead for gender equality but all the levers are in other departments, so we work with them to advance gender equality, as you know. That is one of the things I think you're referring to in the departmental plan, which is where we talk about the fact that we're coming up with research and evaluation and performance indicators.