Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thanks, Minister, for being here. We've been looking forward to it.
I have really limited time, so I'm going to try to ask for yes or no answers that align us right into some of the core issues of the work.
With regard to GBA, there is the Beijing Declaration, and several of the Auditor General's reports indicate that Canada has not lived up to its commitment. Your leadership has done a lot of work, which we definitely recognize and acknowledge; however, as my colleagues have alluded to, we recommended unanimously that legislation come into place to implement GBA. We had testimony from witnesses at Immigration Canada about how, when they were legislated to deliver on GBA, it made a big difference to them. Of course, they had to do the training and the culture shift.
I'm very concerned—and I hear this out in the world—that a culture shift doesn't bind the next government, which might have a different attitude towards this. Canadian women can't count on the goodwill of this government and this cabinet to do the right thing.
Again, will your government introduce legislation, as we recommended, before June 2017?