The original impetus for looking at GBA as part of the development of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act went as far back as the 1995 government commitment to gender equality and gender-based analysis as a key motivator for that. As we went forward in developing the department, we took that commitment very seriously.
At the time, a gender-based unit was hired and put in place to review the act. Some of the work in terms of training of policy analysts to assist in building that capacity within the department was put in place at that time. As some of you may remember, we published a GBA of the act and of the regulations in the Canada Gazette as we went through the process.
The actual reporting requirement came out of a motion at the committee stage of the act, and it was agreed to by our department, but to be honest, it wasn't part of the original thought-through process.