Ideally--well, it shouldn't be ideally--I think Canada has been committed for a long time on paper to achieving the full social economic equality of women, and I think until all of those differences are eradicated, gender budgeting should continue to look at, quantify, analyze, and eliminate every single one of them. There is no reason to single out any one aspect of Canadian society and say “This should be immune”. The differences between women and men are too pervasive, they're too interlinked, and they're too mutually reinforcing to ever be able to be taken apart to leave some in place.
On November 28th, 2007. See this statement in context.