I understand that people do make these cases. I'm sure you can find witnesses who can lead you through cases they may have constructed, as far as the costs and benefits of these things.
Often one of the problems is that the cost of performing this exercise is out of today's budget, whereas the benefits are seen somewhere down the road. So perhaps the government in power today does not see the benefits if they are more concerned about their bottom line at the moment rather than the bottom line in the future. That's a difficulty. I hope we aren't that short-sighted about it. It's a high price to pay if you say you're willing to tolerate gender inequity because of your bottom line today.
Second, we never say that accountability in government is just too expensive and we're not going to pay attention to it any more. It would be shocking for parliamentarians to say, “We're just not going to pay attention how we're spending money, because it's pretty time-consuming to keep track of things.” That's not politically acceptable, and it shouldn't be politically acceptable to say we're willing to tolerate the perpetuation of gender inequity because we just don't want to pay attention to doing the analysis.