Certainly. I talk about the five steps of gender budgeting, and the first step is a situation analysis to say what is the position of women, men, girls, and boys in a particular country in relation to education, employment, health, or whatever you want to name it. When one does that, it's not simply women and men, girls and boys, but in my country it's black women, black men, white women, and it's rich and poor. Certainly if you can show there is no inequality in Canada, then you don't need a gender-responsive budget.
On December 10th, 2007. See this statement in context.