Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Madam Auditor General, and your colleagues, for coming in here again today.
I would also like to focus on chapter 1, dealing with gender-based analysis. First of all, under the section, “Why it’s important”, I want to commend you on using, as an example, cardiovascular disease, as it's the number one killer of women, yet it's not recognized as such.
As a director of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon, this is an issue that I am familiar with. I'm happy to say that the president of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of B.C. and Yukon, Bobbe Wood, introduced the Heart Truth program, which in fact is bringing this to people's attention: the concern over why, despite the fact that heart and stroke disease is a major killer in women, it's not recognized as such, and therefore not enough resources have been dedicated to that. So I appreciate your using that example.
Now, I notice, as my colleague Mr. Christopherson mentioned, the Government of Canada at the time, in 1995, first committed to a gender-based analysis system, yet, for example, in the Department of Finance, nothing was done until 2005--or at least that's the impression I got.
I just want to ask you, what did happen during those 10 years--mostly under the previous government, I should add--to this gender-based analysis, in particular with the Department of Finance? Did anything happen?