--comparing it and contrasting it to that of other countries. Canada is one of the latest countries to come out officially with a national action plan. In fact, we've gone further than most of the other international partners. We are the first country that has in fact integrated indicators into our national action plan.
What I focus on more, and what we focused on more, including in our discussions with civil society in the drafting of the national action plan--and we engaged more than 500 stakeholders in its development--are the actions in the action plan. Again, if you look at the terms used in some of the documents of our other close allies, you'll see that in many of the circumstances we're saying exactly the same thing, except that instead of using the term “gender equality”, in some instances we utilize the term “equality between men and women, girls and boys”.
Page 3 of our action plan explains what we're getting at with respect to equality within the context of the national action plan. I think that might be helpful in order to contextualize what we it was that we were seeking to get at. I hope it would address the committee's concerns.