I concur with other committee members, by the way, that you've made a very substantive contribution to our study on this. I think there is a tremendous volume of information that has to be.... But it is a way forward. The culmination of all that is extremely helpful.
There's one consideration that I can't get my head away from right now, and that is this notion that while we admit that any government has to consider multiple layers when they look at budget considerations and policy considerations, addressing gender equality is one of those considerations. When you fit that into the mix.... And there are other things. For example, the deputy minister mentioned that you have world economic pressures that come to bear--housing and geographic issues that come up. So they're faced with all of that, and they have to fit gender equality into the mix.
Insofar as the budget is designed to try to address bits and pieces of all of that, aren't we kind of setting ourselves up for the likelihood that when it's all said and done, we're not going to get as far as we would have liked to in terms of addressing gender equality?