Thank you, Chair.
Thank you for your work and for being here and for being the lead on this important issue. I think there's lots of common cause around the table. We want this to work well.
I'll express my slight despair or cynicism around how long we've had.... There have been two Auditor General's reports. In both cases Status of Women has said they agreed with all the AG recommendations. They were going to establish a plan. That was in 2009.
Then in 2015, they said they were going to establish a five-year progress report and they were going to report in 2020.
I'm wondering what will be different in 2020. I don't want us to be like Groundhog Day here. I think the thing we just keep talking about is what if it were mandatory? We have some good results from Immigration Canada, where it's written right into their act. What would that look like for Status of Women as sort of an enforcer, someone to ensure that a mandatory requirement to conduct GBA across all departments was a recommendation of this committee?