Status of Women committee  Status of Women Canada used to fund research. One of the things I'm saying is that this research funding should be reinstated. It's valuable. The study we did with women on social assistance was only done because of that.

Status of Women committee  Actually, I think that question would speak to the earlier ones about who might have the knowledge that's necessary. Part of it is about what kind of process do we set up. I'm an adult educator, I'm a pedagogue. It's not what we do, it's how we do it. How do we get women's grassroots organizations or grassroots organizations together?

Status of Women committee  I would like to respond very quickly. I think that the PMO could make Status of Women Canada responsible for overseeing GBA+ for all of the government. I think that leaving it up to individual departments is problematic. Further to that, I recommend that the Treasury Board and the Privy Council be mandated to reject policies and programs that have not demonstrated GBA in practice.

Status of Women committee  First of all, the supports and resources have to be put in place. There have to be accountability mechanisms in place. Status of Women has to have more power or resources in order to oversee the process. It has to be a process where there isn't a different GBA, or whatever it is called, for each department.

Status of Women committee  I think I spoke to some of that in terms of the lack of follow-up and the way training is currently done in a technical, rational approach. I think there are a whole bunch of things that need to be done in terms of the resources as they exist now. It is also problematic because it is not just Status of Women that is producing resources.

Status of Women committee  It's a privilege to be here. I'm going to be speaking from a perspective of someone who is a practitioner of GBA as well as an academic. Over a decade ago, in 2003 to be exact, I was about one of a dozen or so women—we were all women—trained to deliver GBA by Status of Women Canada.