Thank you for your question.
Yes, we've been doing gender-based analysis, in some sense, without using the word, for a very long time. In doing the child tax benefit, for example, or changing the child care expense deduction, and things of that nature, we've always been conducting gender-based analysis. However, it wasn't called that, if you wish, and maybe it wasn't systematic in other areas, or areas that are more social in nature or more geared towards the family.
So for training, we and Status of Women did some case studies with the analysts, using some real life case studies and putting everybody together in a room and asking, if this is the kind of measure you have to analyze, how would you go about it? It was really formalizing something that people were doing in certain cases, but at least making the analysis systematic and presenting it in a systematic way in every proposal put forward.
From that perspective, we now have a vocabulary of gender-based analysis that everybody understands and can actually use, and they know what the ramifications of that are. Also, by putting it in every proposal, this raises its profile, because along with strategic environmental assessments, it's now part of the format, if you wish, or template used to present every proposal.
We plan to do some more training as well. What's interesting is that it's not training in gender-based analysis in a conceptual world; it's actually working with the analysts and asking how they do it in their day-to-day lives and add to the process.