Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Fraser and Ms. Smith, for being with us today. We were all looking forward to you coming with great hope because we have tremendous respect for you. We know the work you have done in the past and we hope that your office will help us decide how we can be sure that gender-based analysis is done at all stages of the department budget process.
I know that talking about the policies and measures that are implemented is not, as such, your bailiwick, but I would still like to know whether you think there have been changes or improvements in recent years in terms of measures that could advance the status of women. For example, we know that there is a law requiring the Department of Citizenship and Immigration to apply gender-based analysis. I assume that when your group analyzes that Department's budgets, it can see whether those rules are applied.
Is that how it works?