Mr. Chair, with all due respect to the minister, I can understand it certainly takes a long time to institute longer term institutional change. However, the plan was in 1995, which was nine years ago. The reality is that for example in the Employment Insurance Act changes made to employment insurance discriminated against women. One-third of pregnant women are not eligible for maternity or parental leave. It is more difficult to qualify for benefits and the benefit period is shorter. Clearly, this legislation would have benefited from a thorough gender analysis.
When the minister talks about long term strategy, I would again ask the minister when will other departments be subject to a mandate of gender based analysis?