Status of Women committee  Departments themselves pay. What Status of Women Canada provides free of charge is our support and all of the training materials: the participant manuals, case study development, what we call the shower sheets, which are highlight questions, a little checklist guide that can help departments.

Status of Women committee  You want to know how they each do their work differently? This is something we do with departments when we work with them on GBA. It's very much based on the organizational culture of the department. Some departments won't move on anything unless they have a guideline or a memo from DMs.

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Status of Women committee  I'll let Finance explain in more detail, but when I say family household, it depends on the composition. “Family” is the all-inclusive grab-all. It's two-parent families, lone-mother families, and lone-father families, just to clarify that. So they did look, and they do make the assumptions.

Status of Women committee  Finance can explain in more detail. On MOUs for training, no, we don't have them. I'm not sure if you were asking for the number of departments with GBA capacity, because that's the number we said earlier. It was 17 departments. And yes, we'll be providing the list. On the disaggregated data and how we make it more available, Statistics Canada has a lot of data banks, and they do tend to collect things and disaggregate subpopulation groups and various cohorts.

Status of Women committee  That depends on the version. I'm teasing you a little, but we have roughly seven different versions. The training was created so that we would have a tool that could be adapted to the needs and mandates of the participants receiving the training. We look at all the stages, from policy development to delivery, including program and service development, up to evaluation.

Status of Women committee  Basically, the finance department did what we always do with GBA. You take an issue and break it down into its components in terms of comparative results, comparative situations. It always depends on data, and that's not just for Finance; it's for any department in any country where the data is available.

Status of Women committee  They actually did do an analysis of that. They looked at it from the perspective that it is a family expenditure, in the sense that it's household oriented. Is it disproportionately impacting women or men? Well, they can't really tell, because it's a household expenditure and it's focused on children.

Status of Women committee  We currently have an interdepartmental GBA committee. It consists of people from the departments where there are GBA duties, whether it be a network, a responsibility centre together with a network or duties. At the federal level, there are 17 who have some kind of capability, which doesn't mean that each department covers the full range of work in the field.

Status of Women committee  It's interesting, because the tool, the MRRS, is able to discern, through the evidence presented--and I'm sorry it's bureaucratic--in RPPs and DPRs, the allocation of resources to the strategic outcomes identified by the department. They can see the resources allocated to the activities that are being driven to reach those key outcomes.

Status of Women committee  There is constant talking at the working level, which is why we have the working group. The steering committee of GBA champions—obviously chaired by our coordinator at Status of Women Canada—can also look at things where perhaps we might say, “We're not sure about this, maybe you need to check with the champion”.

Status of Women committee  Basically, we support the three central agencies in a variety of ways. They also have a GBA steering committee, with the three GBA champions from each agency with our coordinator, so they oversee, they discuss, and they consult. We have a working group with the three agencies to get into the nitty gritty, which is what I'm going to quickly get into.

Status of Women committee  As Hélène said earlier, some processes are very lengthy, and gender-responsive budgets are one of them. It's an incremental process. You need to understand the tools, you need to get the training, and you need to know how to apply it. It's also incremental in the sense that you can't necessarily apply it to revenue and expenditure at the same time.

Status of Women committee  And I'll do it quickly. How's that?