It's an important point.
The minister, for example, meets with all of his colleagues in cabinet on budget process; he meets with his caucus colleagues; he meets with the opposition leaders; he listens to committees like this one and like the overall finance committee, which has broad-based consultations; and he meets with a lot of Canadians. We have a website to get ideas. So there's a very broad outreach: what are the ideas; what do people want him to do on budget? There's always far more than we can do.
The department also has some ideas on things that make sense in the current economic circumstance, but really it's a much broader outreach. When those ideas are rolled up and the minister is trying to decide what he can make progress on, what we do is provide our assessment of all of those. It's not as if we go away looking for ideas that meet a particular need on this and that, other than looking at the overall economic circumstance and at how we feel we must manage the macro-approach. The minister reaches out to his colleagues, but in this assessment process that we have in play, we make sure that the judgment he makes and that the government makes on their budget is an informed judgment about impacts on the gender-based analysis.