Thank you for being part that delegation. I know that those of us who were there as part of the Inter-Parliamentary Union's presentation regarding the violence that women in politics experience around the world were moved by the discussion. There were six ministers from Canada around that table, and regardless of the regions we hail from, this is an issue that we know in Canada we can do more to address.
We know that if we want to encourage the next generation of leaders to come to this place and to stay and keep serving their communities, we need to do more to enhance the way we conduct ourselves in this place in terms of the overall aggression levels that we understand to take place.
The work that Status of Women does is a horizontal approach. One of the ways we make sure we're involved in every department's policies, programs, and legislation is by making sure that a GBA+ is conducted on every item that comes across the cabinet table. This means that our phones are ringing off the hooks in a way that I understand has not happened in over 20 years, with different departments understanding how critical the GBA+ analysis is to having their proposals received at the cabinet table. They want to make sure they get it right. I know we'll be coming to you with an interim report with how we're doing there.
We work across departments because there's an understanding with the Prime Minister, with cabinet, with all our caucus colleagues, frankly, and I think with members from different sides of the aisle, that everything we do has a gendered impact. That's what the gender statement in the budget is about, that different policies affect women and girls and people of different genders differently.
That's one way.
The gender-based violence strategy is a collaborative effort between over half a dozen ministers and departments. That's the only way it's going to work. Women's lives are dynamic. The different services, programs, and supports that they need have to be just that.