From my recollection, this was one of those issues.
There was a lot of testing that went on in the design of the questions. To the point that was made earlier about people understanding the question, they focus tested it a lot. They tried to get the questions as good as they could, so that people who were not used to considering these things as work would understand what they were. Take the emotion and motivation out of it, but understand what the work is, so that it could be documented.
For Statistics Canada, I think there were some people who were worried a little bit about the reliability of it. Once we got the results and once they were compared to GSS, those fears proved to be unsubstantiated. I think those were some of the concerns.
However, going into Beijing, and given the importance to gender equality of having this kind of information, that societal need to start somewhere and understand what we're dealing with and get good data on it—I'm speculating—was probably the paramount issue.
I don't know what happens in cabinet, but those were some of the discussions and some of the issues that were being debated at the time.