Yes, we can do that. We don't even need legislation. For example, the strategic environmental assessments are not a requirement under legislation; there was a cabinet directive to do them. If there is some policy in government, and it doesn't need to be in legislation, that says gender-based analysis should be done, or even quite honestly a commitment--and I read some of the testimony before this committee that would certainly seem to indicate that government officials are saying there is a commitment by government to do it--we could certainly say that government has committed to doing this. Are you actually doing it, but there is no requirement? If there is no requirement, it's difficult for us to say they haven't followed this. If they've committed to it, we could use that.
On April 10th, 2008. See this statement in context.