Thank you very much for your question, Ms. Boucher.
Status of Women Canada is continuing to focus its expertise and knowledge transfer on support for evidence-based strategic analysis of the barriers facing women.
In addition, Status of Women Canada uses the research and statistics coming out of other government departments, including Statistics Canada, Human Resources and Social Development Canada and, of course, Health Canada.
Status of Women Canada is currently working on a gender equality indicator project, in cooperation with other departments, with a view to developing a tool that could be used all across the federal administration for evidence-based decision-making in government policy development. We are expecting to produce the first series of indicators in 2008.