Mr. Chair, I will be primarily focussing on questions for the Minister responsible for Status of Women which falls under the Department of Canadian Heritage.
According to the documents from the department, Status of Women Canada works to provide Canadians with strengthened and more equitable public policies by conducting gender based analysis in promoting its applications throughout the federal government.
I asked this question of officials who appeared before the Standing Committee on the Status of Women earlier today and I would like to ask the minister this as well. Why does gender based analysis not appear as a horizontal initiative in the estimates from the Treasury Board?