Thank you very much.
Thank you for this extensive report and for appearing before us today.
I want to pick up on this notion of the mandatory requirement, because it seems to me that we had an audit in 2009, and now here we are, six or seven years later, and another audit shows very little progress, if any. Obviously, something needs to be done differently.
I know that in a number of jurisdictions the language has moved from GBA to gender-responsive budgeting. That includes, in many cases, mandatory requirements and deadlines, but it also includes a broader input by civil society, by Parliament, and by other stakeholders. I'm wondering if that may be something that we might want to look at. I know that you don't do policy, but in your opinion would that be something that would improve things?
I also want to follow up on your comment about non-compliance, because I'm struggling with that difference. If you have a report and you're saying there has been no progress and there's limited application, what kind of teeth...? What would non-compliance do that currently we can't do if there isn't an actual requirement? I'd be interested in hearing about that and also about whether or not you think the changes need to be legislative. Could they be policy-based? For instance, in Citizenship and Immigration, it's clearly in the legislation. It's in the act. But does it have to be legislated? Is it possible that we could accomplish this through other means?