I'll call the meeting to order. Welcome.
It's my pleasure to bring to you the results of our subcommittee meeting. The clerk is going to help me as we walk through the various motions.
The discussion we had at our subcommittee is that we really would like to have a piece of work, a report to the House by the end of this session. In order to do that, we don't feel we can get there with the violence study, so we would like to switch gears and focus on the gender-based analysis study.
In order to do that, because we previously made a motion to do the violence study first and then do GBA, I would be looking for a motion to revoke the motion agreed to on March 10, instructing the committee to study violence against young women and girls in Canada first, followed by the study on gender-based analysis.
I'll be looking for that motion first, and then a motion to commence the study on gender-based analysis.
Oh, I can do this all at once. I can walk you through the whole thing that we're proposing, and then we can have some discussion on it. Then we can pass the whole thing in one fell swoop.
When we looked at the gender-based analysis, there were a number of witnesses who were suggested by everyone. The subcommittee went through everything and tried to figure out the calendar. We can actually have five meetings in order to be able to present a report to the House by June 16.
In terms of the witnesses, we had more witnesses than we could actually fit into those meetings, so we had some discussion about what we should do.
The first meeting would be a two-hour meeting with Status of Women Canada and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, which were suggested witnesses.
The second meeting would be divided into two parts. The Auditor General would sit through the whole two-hour meeting, and Employment and Social Development Canada and Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada, that were involved in the 2009 audit, would have five-minute presentations, with written briefs before the meeting. In the second hour of that meeting, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and Natural Resources Canada would make five-minute presentations with written briefs beforehand. They are the ones that promised to implement GBA in the 2010 to 2012 time frame.
The third meeting would be departments and agencies. The first hour would be the Privy Council Office and Treasury Board. They were respondents to the Auditor General. The second hour would be the Department of Finance, Public Works and Government Services, and Statistics Canada.
In the fourth meeting we would bring in academic experts. There would be one of the former chairs of the Expert Panel on Accountability Mechanisms for Gender Equality; Kathleen Lahey, a professor at Queen's University in the institute of women's studies; a representative from Carleton University's centre for women in politics who is a GBA expert; and possibly a fourth that the analyst will come up with. That two-hour session would be on academics and experts.
The final meeting would bring in examples of successes in GBA implementation from other jurisdictions, including the province of Quebec, and there are several examples there, and the Government of New Zealand, which in New York presented quite a success story on their implementation, and possibly a fourth.
That would be the five meetings that are recommended, after which time we as a committee would sit and give direction to the analysts on what to write in the report. The report would be drafted and reviewed by the committee, such that we could present it to the House on June 16. If the House rises early, the discussion was that we may have to add an additional meeting in order to get our act together early to be able to submit before the House adjourns.
Ms. Ludwig.
