Thank you, Madam Chair.
Good morning, witnesses. I must say it's a great honour to have the three of you here today. I thought your report was extremely thorough, coming on the heels of what I would consider to be some very comprehensive work on the part of this committee and including the government response of the day.
One of the things I'd like to deal with first, Madam Langevin, is in regard to your comments suggesting that at this point there is in fact no political will on the part of this government to deal with gender-based issues. That was a rather categorical statement. I point to some of the initiatives--and I appreciate, by the way, that observers may look at that question and have varying degrees, and accept the fact that some would like to see more political will, but to suggest that there is none is, I think, a little bit harsh.
We point to, for example, budget 2008, in which we've committed to an action plan on equality. Changes in the recent mandate of the Status of Women Canada, particularly to the women's program, point to this evolution.
We've heard testimony here before the committee that though some would agree that we are not yet where we ultimately need to be on the work of ingraining gender-based analysis into the culture of planning and decision-making and budget-setting, we're making some progress on it.
Do you have any response to that?