Thank you, Madam Chair.
I would like to welcome you, Ms. Fraser, Ms. Smith. It is always a pleasure to have you speak to the various committees we work on. Your expertise always sheds light on our questions. I have to tell you that I am feeling very frustrated, as Mr. Pearson mentioned a little earlier in his presentation.
The Standing Committee on the Status of Women decided to study gender-based analysis, or gender budgeting. The more we do on this, the more we see its multiple facets. When we decided to invite you here, it was somewhat so that we could study this system, which looks to me like a giant puzzle where each department is a piece and what we are trying to do is fit gender-based analysis into it. We wondered how the Office of the Auditor General could play a role in putting that analysis in place and having some oversight of it.
From what I have heard, in all of my colleagues' comments and questions, the easiest way would probably be for there to be legislation that defines the indicators, the framework and the mandate, so that you would have some authority. It would be easier to have...