If I can clarify, the lead department is responsible for doing the analysis in terms of any initiative that would come forward to cabinet. The role of PCO and the PCO officer is to perform the challenge function and to ensure that gender-based analysis has actually been undertaken. The considerations in a memorandum to cabinet, which I mentioned to you, actually include, and it's part of the role of the PCO officer to ask about, the gender-based analysis that has been performed, but it is the lead department that is actually responsible for that. It's also Status of Women Canada that is at the interdepartmental table as well. That's a very important role in terms of the interdepartmental consultation process. So again, it's embedded as part of the considerations.
Our role is to ensure that ministers receive information and that the memorandum to cabinet gives them a good assessment of an issue, the implications of an issue for men and women, and considerations around things like strategic environmental assessment, which is also a requirement. There are many considerations that have to be put in front of ministers in terms of the decision-making process. That's our role. We want to make sure that ministers have the information they need to make the decisions. They are ultimately the decision-makers. We are there to provide them with the analysis and the information on which a decision would be based.