Thank you, Madam Chair, and Mr. Fraser and staff.
I always enjoy it when Madame Boucher asks a question, because she continues to say that it has to get past successive governments so we don't do something that just fits one, and she's right. That's what we need to be working towards.
However, I'm a fairly new parliamentarian here, and I'm trying to deal with the reality of what you have just said in your opening presentation. You talked about a particular instance that happened. You made a recommendation. The government did not take that particular interpretation, so you had to go another route and do it.
So am I correct in assuming, then, that if we as a committee took as our direction creating gender budget legislation about a commissioner, it could still happen that the government would ignore that, if that commissioner made a recommendation?