I'll be very quick.
Our appearance today was a bit last-minute, so I did a lot of research last night on our website and in our policy documents to see whether I could find any truth to these allegations. I actually found that our gender equality policy and our programming on gender equality is as vital and vibrant as ever. The policy was evaluated in 2008, and the agency just issued an action plan to address some of the weaknesses found in the evaluation.
The evaluation findings were quite positive. Canada is still seen as a pioneer in promoting gender equality worldwide. Gender equality is a cross-cutting theme throughout all of our programs, projects, and policy.
What we've done in our action plan is improve some of the tools we have to do gender-based analysis in order to identify results throughout all of our projects and programs and to find a way to better promote gender equality with some of our partners--for example, through core funding. So I don't think we would have noticed any sort of dampening of CIDA's leadership in gender equality.