Thank you very much, and I have to say thank you for the work that you do.
I've been reading through some reports, the gender equality consultation report, and more disturbingly, I think, the United Nations Economic and Social Council report that came out just last week. They are very damning in terms of our response since 1993 in regard to women and children and their social conditions in this country, among all of our people.
In light of that, and the enormous amount of work that remains to be done, I wanted to come back to the budget and ask you a bit more about that. I was curious and compared the estimates for this year with the estimates for last year, and I noticed that in terms of the promotion of equitable public policy, there was a significant reduction—about half of the money that was there in the previous year is missing from the budget. In terms of the importance of building that capacity and the mandate we need to address these very significant issues, why was that money reduced? Can the department function and do its job with that reduced budget?