I want to touch on the first point you made. I think it's extremely important, and I repeated it twice in my remarks because it's so important. It is the business of everyone, and for the longest time people thought it was just the business of Status of Women Canada.
We were very pleased when we saw that Parliament had decided to have a committee on the status of women, and we are pleased that this Parliament has decided to continue the work you have done--and I think Hélène and others have touched on it--to ensure that key players in the federal government are now paying more attention to equality for women and men. I'm talking about the central agencies, so that's very key.
When I talk about accountability, it's accountability for all of the government. As you say, there is often a risk when issues are dealt with in one area--for example, on your committee--that they are excluded from all the work of all other committees. We have for many years encouraged parliamentarians to ask questions about gender equality in all of the committees.
The question was asked as to whether we are doing gender-based analyses on every policy and legislation that the government does. Obviously we cannot, but good questions put at those committees will go a long way toward making sure that happens.
You also have departments appear before this committee--not only the usual list of suspects like Status Women and others, but Finance and other departments--to explain the work they do, the challenges they encounter, and how they can improve to make sure the results on equality are what you, as parliamentarians and as the Government of Canada, want to have happen. I think there is an important role that your committee can play, and it's far from ghettoizing the issue.