I want to congratulate the committee on the work they're doing. On the question of bipartisanship and apolitical nature, it's nice to see that this committee is chaired by the opposition; there are relatively few of those, other than the public accounts committee.
It's wonderful to see the bipartisan interest. I think that's a very important part in budget making. Budgets will always be political, but the extent to which we can look at the hard analysis in a bipartisan and truthful and analytical way is going to ensure that we will have better gender-informed budgets in the future, which I think has to be the objective this committee, as well as many other Canadians.