Hi, and thank you very much for appearing here today.
I am going to start with the Treasury Board, if you don't mind. The expectations on the Treasury Board website say that each department or agency “should tailor TB submissions to sufficiently address all gender considerations”. As noted in the 2015 AG report, the Treasury Board also includes a requirement that evidence of GBA is presented with the submission.
Does the TBS have any powers to fully reject the submissions that do not have GBA applied to them? If something comes in, you can return it to them, but at the end of the day, if they return it to you and say, “This is what we have; this is what we are moving forward”, do you have the right to say, “No way”?