Status of Women committee  It's built into our analysis. I wouldn't say I could produce the gender-based analysis for you; it is one of the many considerations we look at. In our department we don't have a special unit that just does gender-based analysis. It really is built into the work of the department across all our program and policy branches.

Status of Women committee  It's hard to give a global answer to that because the gender impacts differ across programs. For example, in the employment insurance program and the changes the government introduced as part of the economic action plan and the Budget Implementation Act, we looked at, exactly as you said, cost impacts, sectoral impacts, regional impacts.

Status of Women committee  Again I'll refer to the monitoring and assessment report, which is a report for 2007. The report for 2008 has now been provided to the minister by the Employment Insurance Commission, and the minister will be tabling that in the House shortly. I apologize, I can't quite remember the timeframe for your report, Madam Chair, but you and committee members and members of your research staff may also want to look at the 2008 monitoring and assessment report, because it will have an update.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. It's nice to see you again, actually. It is a pleasure for me to be with the committee today. Thank you for inviting me to speak about the status of women in the labour market. As you know, I have with me Mr. Thompson, who has appeared before this committee previously on this matter, and together we will do our very best to respond to inquiries and questions from committee members.

Human Resources committee  Thank you, Minister. With me is Ms. Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, our new Chief Operating Officer for Service Canada and Senior Associate Deputy Minister of HRSDC; and Mr. Bruce Manion, Chief Financial Officer for HRSDC.