Okay. Those are a lot of questions. I'll do my best to speak quickly.
I was the lead consultant retained by the province to do the work with policy staff across departments, and then they had a competitive process and four pilot projects were selected.
I think we've made a good start, and the feedback from the department involved in the pilot projects has been quite positive. Ministers have not yet been briefed, and I'm not in a position to say what steps Manitoba is going to take next. I'll just say stay tuned, but I think feedback on those pilots has been very good.
But I think that's a first step. It was just a first step, and now we really need to dig in and figure out what to do next. Certainly my advice, for what it's worth, will be basically the same as I've given you. I sound like a broken record. Consider the differential impacts of women and men on the initiatives that you take through the budget.
You may not be able to do them all in the first year, but pick the big ones. Governments have priorities. Every government comes in saying, “These are our main planks; this is what the people have elected us to do.” If governments were only to subject those top three or five priority items to analysis of their differential impacts on women and men, that would be a big step forward.
How do you do that? First, you have to train up staff in government, because staff may not have the skills to do that. You have to work collaboratively with non-governmental organizations, because that's where a lot of the skills and expertise rest. Then you have to bring them together and do the work. You have to understand that it's really not—and I hope I don't offend any rocket scientists here—rocket science. We committed in 1995 to do it, so we should just start already.