For PCO, the role of champion resides with the assistant secretary for social development policy, and that position, as I say, is designated by the clerk. As I mentioned at the beginning, the assistant secretary was promoted, actually, to an associate deputy position in December, so I've been acting in the position.
The function of the GBA champion in PCO is to promote gender-based analysis and to ensure that it's embedded, incorporated, in the training for PCO officers who work directly in the policy development process. The role of champion was created about two years ago as a result of the recommendations of this particular committee. And as a result of having the champion, we have in fact initiated a training program for PCO officers. It's part of the ongoing tool kit, if I can put it that way, for PCO officers, for new officers, when they come to the PCO policy secretariat so they understand their role as doing the challenge function on policy initiatives coming forward to the cabinet process.
The lead, in terms of expertise on gender-based analysis, of course, resides with Status of Women Canada. We turn to our colleagues and our experts there, and they help us in terms of organizing the training on gender-based analysis for our policy officers.