I mean there's no coherent analysis or framework that's guiding the gender-based analysis done within the finance department. The tax policy people are doing what they can, but I don't think they're necessarily doing it...and it may not be their job. It may be the job of the senior leadership within the finance department, in conjunction with Status of Women Canada, to say these are our priorities, and this is what we want to achieve in an equitable budget for women. We want to tackle these three priorities, therefore our analysis must guide and inform these outcomes.
What I see, in terms of the gender-based analysis to which we've been able to gain access, is that a lot of measures are analyzed, but these measures in some cases are entirely irrelevant to most women's lives and really have no bearing on their equality status, their engagement in the economy, or the ways in which they support their families. So it appears to me to be ad hoc and arbitrary, in that there is no performance indicator, no guiding framework, and no coherence as to how the analysis is done.