Evidence of meeting #2 for Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was meeting.
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Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
I was thinking that this would be the kind of witness that would be helpful, where there was a government that had included it. I'm sure it was Charles. I actually emailed him and he's now posted in Laos, but someone from UN Women.... We did hear from people in other countries where they've used GBA. They don't call it that, though. It was being used.
NDP
Sheila Malcolmson NDP Nanaimo—Ladysmith, BC
It's going to take me too long to find this in my notes.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
I know, but if you like that idea, we should capture it.
The one concern I have is that I don't want to take off all of the ones that Ms. Nassif has suggested. I want to make sure when we're talking about implementing GBA, we're considering French culture as well.
Committee Researcher
Madame Nassif added two departments of the Province of Quebec, because they have a GBA action plan there. I can send it on to the committee, if it hasn't been circulated already. She added these because she thought they could speak at the provincial level as to how they're implementing it within government.
Committee Researcher
That's the first two. It may be that only one will agree to appear. It might not be necessary to have both.
I could find other examples, if you wanted, of provincial governments that have implemented GBA, if others exist. Or I could look up other countries. I could look up more countries and provinces, if you'd like to add to the list. I know we're trying to cut, but because we've cut the other panels, if you want concrete government examples, I could do that.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
We could look at Quebec, and I like this idea about the New Zealand government that implemented something. I think that's a good idea.
Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
If you could find out who it was, that would be nice, because they did implement it. If I remember correctly, it was mandatory and they called it something else. There were a few things. I remember speaking to him afterwards about it. We'll keep the two provincial ones that Eva put forward and remove the bottom two. We've removed diversity in business, the public policy and research organizations. How many meetings are we down to now?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
No, meeting A is two hours. Meeting B is two hours. Meeting three is two hours. We've divided it into halves. Meeting four is only one hour right now. Meeting 5 is also two hours, and meeting 8 is two hours.
Liberal
Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON
Sheila, what do you think about taking...?
Did you have a suggestion?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
Yes. The analyst suggested that we take D, meeting four, which has an hour of Public Works and Government Services with StatsCan, and combine that with the academics and experts, the two that are going to come. You'd have two panels, one for the first hour and one for the second hour.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Marilyn Gladu
She wanted to add somebody from the Carleton Centre for women in Politics and Public Leadership.
NDP
Sheila Malcolmson NDP Nanaimo—Ladysmith, BC
Panel 1 is Public Works and Stats Canada. Panel 2 is two academic experts, probably one from Queen's, one from Carleton, with the caveat that they are GBA experts.
Conservative
