Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
My question is really an open question to both of you. We've heard some comments to the effect that progress on integrating GBA into the practices and decision-making processes over the last couple of years has been somewhat derailed. Perhaps derailed isn't the right word. In some ways the clock has been turned back on the ability to continue to make advances in the work that's being done to make GBA an integral part of the decision-making process.
In the course of your and other witnesses' presentations, I've seen that the opposite is true. In fact, at first blush, it looks like advances continue to be made. I wonder if you could tell me if there has been any directive from the political side of the Government of Canada to in any way change or alter your respective department's approach to GBA and the advances that you seem to be continuing to make? Has there been any such directive?