Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would add to the point you were going to make. On this gender budgeting issue, I would be interested to have some idea, to Madame Demers's point, as to how big, what the scope of it is going to be. I would have some concerns that we could get it done within a reasonable time limit, considering, as we've said, we're under some time constraints here. We don't know how long this session is going to go, obviously, but it might behoove us to look at areas of study that can be done in smaller sections, perhaps.
I was going to suggest that in looking at some of the other issues that might be able to be done in a smaller timeframe is the work I think Madame Demers put on her list, I don't know that it was specifically on ours, but it certainly did show up in the group of topics we discussed last June, and that was item G, the Sisters in Spirit program. It crossed into two areas of study we had last year, but it mostly flowed out of our discussions around the changes at Status of Women Canada. Sisters in Spirit is part of that women's program, or it's part of that funding envelope the women's program has. We certainly learned in our studies on the economic security of women that certain segments of women in Canadian society were more adversely affected. Certainly, aboriginal women were part of that. So it would be like drilling down a little further to say what the experience is there. Is that program meeting their needs? We're coming up to a budgetary cycle. There's a specific area we can hone down and get a little bit more in-depth discussion around that specific group with the aim, I hope, of making a difference there.
That was a suggestion, in the course of looking at these priorities, I would certainly support.