I want to welcome all of you and thank you for taking the time to be with us today.
My first comment is for Anne-Marie Roy. I want to congratulate you on the work you are doing. You mentioned gender-based analysis in your comments. I want to assure you that gender-based analysis is used in many ministries across our government and is a very important concept and concern of our government, and we make it very clear that we do keep it in mind in everything we do. I wanted to let you know that we do notice that and thank you for your comments today.
Second, I want to congratulate all of you on the work you have done in order to achieve all you have done. It takes a lot of hard work. It takes a sincere focus to accomplish all that you have accomplished.
I want to direct my questions to Janice McDonald. I was happy to hear you say that you share and work with women as a mentor. With all you have accomplished over all of these years, you certainly have a lot to offer others. I know they would learn a lot from being mentored by you, so thank you so much. It's these new people who are coming out and people who need our assistance, need your assistance, who we need to focus on and help them as we go along. It's great to have someone with us to follow and encourage us to carry on as we are doing.
I was just wondering, how long did your journey take you to get to where you are today? I know you have many more ideas of other things you hope to accomplish, but just in focusing on where your journey has taken you to get to today, I was wondering if you could give us an outline on that.