You're asking a good question. It's a tricky question for an official to respond to, but let me take it another way.
Over the last number of years, we looked not only at how Canada was working, but how a number of other countries are working to advance gender equality. When we appeared before the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2005, it was to take stock ten years after the Beijing conference to see if countries were really progressing.
Canada and a number of other like-minded countries realized that what we needed to build was more accountability. We needed to have indicators. We needed to do gender-based analysis in a more systematic way to ensure gender equality results.
It's not only a question of money. It's a question of commitment at the highest level of the government. It's a question of building more accountability, so that we can see progress: so that we not only hear of our progress and what's still lacking from international organizations, but that as a government and as a country, we know where we're going.
That's why we're investing in accountability. We're investing in a more systematic application of building accountability in the application of gender-based analysis. In so doing, the committee's work, which has finally encouraged central agencies to take their responsibilities and help us in achieving gender equality results, is key. We also need to consult with Canadians to make sure that we're getting the equation right.
Also, we need to find appropriate and fair funding for women's organizations and equality-seeking groups, in order to be able to achieve gender equality results. It's not just a question of money, it's a question of how. It's a question of commitment and accountability. It's a question of being able to say in two, three, or five years that in 2006 this is where we were on the health of women. This is where we were on this or that, and four years later, have we progressed? If not, we will ask why, then adjust our policies.