Thanks very much, Madam Chair, and thanks very much, Professor Lahey, for being here and imparting your knowledge to us today. It has certainly been interesting. I think what this committee has decided we're going to study is a huge undertaking; when we put this idea forward and agreed that it was something we were going to do, I think we all knew that. I think hearing your presentation and the presentation from Professor Philipps today has brought that message back to us loud and clear. It is a huge undertaking.
I think the purpose of this meeting today was to help us work out the parameters of how such a study could be performed and be successful. We know several other countries have entered into this gender budgeting process. I think Australia was the first one--and you've referred to Australia a couple of times in your comments--but there have also been several others, such as Sweden, Finland, and those areas, as well as Africa, South Africa, India, and others. What isn't clear to me is how we start this process. It has been stated that the finance department is critical to it. HRSDC has been mentioned, and the justice department has been mentioned, but what is the first step we do to start this process?
Further to that, have these other countries that have started the initiatives continued on with them, and have they been successful? A question was asked about measuring and determining whether or not they were successful. Has anybody gone that far? Have they measured their success, and if so, how have they done that?