Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you to all for your presentations.
On gender analysis and gender budgeting, most Canadians would be hard pressed to find the difference between the two. If certain government departments, including Finance, were to fully buy in to gender analysis, would that alleviate the need for gender budgeting?
My second question is--and you can answer them all together--over the last two decades, have we witnessed any marked improvement in how federal government policies impact on the lives of women?
I think everyone will agree with me that the lot of Canadian women has been improving. While more maybe needs to be done, progress has occurred, and I think all of you agree with me. Women are better educated, wages are higher, and poverty is down.
My third question is, how much of this can be attributed to government policies and how much to women themselves?