Certainly. At the Privy Council Office we have a designated champion at a very senior level, a senior official who was appointed two years ago with the position. GBA has been incorporated. There's an annual training session provided with the expertise of Status of Women Canada to help PCO officers understand gender-based analysis and how it should play in the policy process.
From the point of view of PCO's role, as I think I outlined on Tuesday, PCO doesn't develop the policy or make the policy or develop the documents. Our role is to ensure that in our advice and in the material that comes to cabinet to inform decision-making, due diligence has been done and that it has been incorporated.
From our point of view, having a champion to ensure that the training actually happens and to ensure that PCO officers understand their role in terms of the policy challenge function--which includes raising questions around gender-based analysis--and understand their role in ensuring that an interdepartmental process takes place that includes the expertise of Status of Women leads us to feel we've actually put in place the necessary mechanisms to ensure that gender-based analysis is an issue and a factor that we understand in our day-to-day work in performing our job.