Thank you, Madam Chair.
We did not question the guidance and recommendations that are in place by Status of Women Canada. They are the experts, if you will, in this area; we are not.
We looked to see if departments were putting in place the frameworks, doing the analysis that Status of Women Canada has recommended be done. We used their framework or their guidance as what we call the “criteria”, so we accepted that. We then asked if departments were doing that. We did not go into an evaluation.
That's one of the things we recommend, actually, that there should be an evaluation of this across government. That could bring in issues as to whether the current guidance and framework are still relevant today. But we started, as a starting point, from the guidance that is in place.