That's a great question.
As you know, Terry Duguid has been working very diligently on engaging men in a conversation to advance gender equality, and boys as well. We were doing this as Status of Women Canada. Even when it wasn't our mandate, we were supporting LGBTQ2 individuals and working to engage men and boys. Now, with this new mandate, we actually have the scope and some support in terms of resources to do this work.
We've been having conversations with folks who have been doing this work. There are organizations and men and boys who are actively working every day to advance gender equality in talking about things like toxic masculinity and the paradox of privilege that comes with being a man, and reminding all of us that when women and girls do well, so do men and boys.
I think that's one of the missing ingredients of our efforts to achieve the sustainable development goal number 5. Men haven't always been included in the conversation—for good reasons sometimes, and sometimes because of habit—but we know that men are part of the solution. Men want to be part of the solution, so we're working on a strategy to better include them. That strategy includes, as Irene mentioned, organizations that are already doing the work. We hope to be able to better support them to help them scale up their efforts and to collaborate better together.
What we heard, Terry—one of the most common phrases we heard on the road from folks—was “thank you for bringing us together”. This in itself is success for us, because we don't get to come together anymore. There is more to come on that as well. As you know, the Prime Minister is a big advocate for this as well.