It should come from the department. The finance department is largely responsible for all of the budgets drawn up, notably the one that will be unveiled to Canadians today. In 2005, the department claimed to be ready to conduct comparative gender-based analyses. We are training people to ascertain whether departments have in fact implemented the comparative gender-based analysis approach. We are seeing that this hasn't happened. This is an area of shared responsibility and departments are expected to take on this responsibility.
On February 26th, 2008. See this statement in context.