To answer Ms. Damoff's question, I would say yes, definitely.
Over the past year, as Ms. Guérard mentioned, we took the initiative of creating a national women's committee. We saw that the other employment equity groups—indigenous people, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities—had formed their own national committees. Women, however, did not have a national committee.
In 2015, we asked then Clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette a question when she was visiting the Canadian Space Agency. We asked whether it was possible to create a national women's committee, because it would help women make progress towards employment equity. We were told that, if the need existed, we could go ahead. We took the idea and ran with it, receiving the support of 38 departments. We developed a proposal for the creation of a committee because we truly believe in its power to help women government-wide, whether in science or other fields.