Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you again for coming today.
I'd like to begin with chapter 1. There are two parts to it. I'll deal with the substantive matter first and then maybe go to the process one.
If I'm understanding the trail properly, there was a commitment made by the federal government of the day to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, in 1995, that we were going to move to gender-based analysis. We made that commitment in 2005.
Then in 2007 and 2008, we were making reports and comments in front of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, bragging about the fact that this was one of the elements we were initiating as a government and as a country to help Canadian women. Yet you found that it's not happening anywhere near the degree it should; those are my words.
So we have a commitment made in 1995. We have bragging going on in 2007 and 2008. Yet when we look in between, it's not happening.
I'm pretty sure that this will be one that we'll call in. I can't imagine that we will let this go by without bringing it in for a hearing.
I'm a little confused about this; it looked as though they started out well, with the justice department. When I read that I thought, wow, this is serious. They're getting the training in place and everything else.
Then they dissolved it. Now we're back to....
Can you flesh that out a little? What did they do? Why did it work? Do you have any notion of why it disappeared?
Did they replace it with...obviously they didn't, but what were they thinking they were replacing it with that was going to do as good a job?