Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to our two guests this afternoon.
Before I put my question, it occurred to me during Ms. Minna's previous questions that there was some discussion with regard to the pension splitting initiative brought forward last fall and then incorporated into the budget implementation in 2007.
But there were a couple of other measures that, apart from pension splitting, go directly to pensioners and seniors, if I could. One was the increase in the pension amount credit from $1,000 to $2,000, which affects everybody who has a pension income. And also the age amount tax credit, which was completely universal for any taxpayer 65 years of age or over, which is an additional $1,000. Those were two measures that, apart from pension splitting at least, speak to that issue of seniors and pensioners in particular.
So to my question. I should say the backdrop for this was our previous meeting on gender-based analysis. The witnesses we had at that time described the progress that had been made with respect to gender-based analysis and how it had begun to become more a part of the culture of decision-making. I wonder if you could, from your experience, speak to how this has progressed and perhaps how it has become part of the cultural best practices within a department, even to the point of becoming in other ways other lenses that we need to look through--that being ethnic diversity and other diversity issues--and how that progress has been made.
If you can each comment on that, or one, I'll leave it to you.