There are many ways of answering that question. My answer would be that my first priority is to have the information so that we actually know what the consequences are of policies based on gender.
We could go further than that and put some sort of goal attached to it. Once we have all the information on the table, then our goal is such-and-such. You will all come up with some sort of statement about a preferred outcome vis-à-vis gender.
I'm not discussing the preferred outcome at this point. I am saying please provide us the information of how policies are currently impacting Canadians based on gender. Then we'll have the full public debate. To have a democratic debate we have to have the information, otherwise we're just tossing platitudes around about what we'd like to see. We don't know what the evidence is.
I think the finance department currently has lots of tools at its disposal to give us more evidence than we currently have about the impacts of policies. Why not just put those on the table, and then we'll all discuss it.