Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank Madame Deschamps, because I think she's raised something very important here. It has come to my attention that either in late October or early November Canada is going to be reviewed in Geneva by the United Nations committee for compliance under CEDAW. That's a very important meeting for us, so I've given it some thought and I wonder if I could make a friendly amendment to Madame Deschamps' motion.
I've actually written it out. I'll repeat it here: that as part of its gender analysis study and all issues that pertain to the work of the committee on the status of women, the Standing Committee on the Status of Women wishes to be included in all the meetings that the Government of Canada is invited to attend.
I didn't list the meetings because I'm not aware, perhaps, of all of them and I wouldn't want to delete something that should be there; hence the inclusion of “all”.
I'd also like to say that it's interesting with regard to the Peruvian invitation. It says, “Who should attend?” and the response is “government representatives”. So I think that's quite clear in terms of governments being invited.
At any rate, I'll pass my amendment around.