From what I hear from people who have been here far longer than I, this conversation on gender has never been louder around the cabinet table, and I am very pleased and proud of my colleagues for doing that with me and taking this so seriously.
Certainly, one example is the renewed approach to indigenous policing. Gender-based analysis helped to identify some of the vulnerabilities faced by indigenous women, but also—and here is where I was talking about moving forward from just counting what happens to women—to identify strategies that can go forward to ensure gender and cultural competency training for officers. As I said of the federal social infrastructure strategy, GBA resulted in the identification of the need for greater investments in shelters and transition housing to better meet the needs of women and children.
As I said, we are looking at how we can analyze the large-scale procurement projects so that we consider the workforce makeup of the industry and find out how we can actually orient procurement processes to consider gender equality and women benefiting from those procurement processes.
Right now, we are also being consulted on a wide range of proposals, including the national housing strategy, the defence policy review, and initiatives related to clean growth and innovation.
Many of these proposals are still in development, but we also have a very important opportunity to monitor how GBA is integrated as they roll out. I think that's a really important point to stress. We are not perfect at GBA yet. This is a first-year effort in terms of the focus that we've had. No other government has focused on gender in the way this government has. We are very proud of our efforts to date, but we know that we still have a ways to go, and part of that is the culture shift.