I am sure you will agree with me that the poverty rate for women has not really improved in Canada, and there is still a lot of violence against women. I sometimes wonder if we are using the right approach.
My time is limited, but I would still like to briefly talk about the gender-based analysis. The model is there and everyone agrees with it.
Everybody talks about gender-based analysis, but nobody really evaluates if it's doing anything. Nobody is really going to the departments. Even the finance department--with the budget coming down, is it going to be done based on gender-based analysis? Will we be able to evaluate it? Do we have the tools through Status of Women Canada to really take them to task and say no, they didn't do it? Don't just put a little box down—done the analysis—but show if we have a tool to evaluate if they do it.