We are, of course, encouraged by everything and anything that goes to helping the department have the resources it needs to address not only the backlog but the processes by which decisions are made, by all the tools they use to make those decisions and all the supports and programs they provide to ensure that gender-based analysis is done on policies prior to their being put into place.
We remain very much encouraged by what we see. However, there are the gaps in wait times between males and females and anglophones and francophones, and we don't even know what the impacts are on rural and urban or indigenous and non-indigenous. There are so many other demographic factors that we are uncertain of and can't see the answers to. All I can say is that we remain encouraged and we hope to see that these things continue to improve and that the gaps continue to lessen.