Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, as part of this audit we did not include the Chief Actuary in the scope. We focused mainly on the analysis provided to us by the Department of Finance.

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, when we did the audit we saw that the information to support the decision-making process for some files was rather limited, so in the report we question the way these decisions were taken, considering that the information to support them was limited. For example, we ta

Public Accounts committee  We still stand by the statement that it had limited analysis for information.

Public Accounts committee  Yes.

Public Accounts committee  When we did the audit, we did not examine the impact head offices have on investment decisions. We simply examined, in light of the objectives set out in the program, how the department managed the funds for these initiatives. That is why we did not examine the influence of head

Public Accounts committee  That is precisely why we made that recommendation to the department. We are asking it to do a follow-up and to measure the performance of the program. The objectives are very ambitious; they are to make motor vehicles more ecological, less energy-consuming, encourage innovation a

Status of Women committee  We did not look at private members' bills specifically. In the sample of 16 initiatives that we selected, there was at least one revision to an act. As well, one regulation was introduced. This was in terms of looking for GBA evidence. But in our sample, no, there were no priva

Status of Women committee  There is a cabinet directive for departments to perform strategic environmental assessments, so whenever there is a proposal they have to do an environmental assessment. This is done through a cabinet directive. This is one avenue that could be taken to force GBA to be performed,

Status of Women committee  The process, put simply, is that whenever there is a policy proposal being analyzed, they have to put the environmental lens on it and try to assess what the environmental impact of this policy initiative will be. This information is then relayed to the policy-makers through the

Status of Women committee  If I may add, it doesn't mean that because there's a requirement to perform an environmental assessment, they're well done. They might be taking shortcuts and writing that there's no environmental impact, whereas in reality there is an environmental impact.

Status of Women committee  We've seen TB submissions with GBA that said that there was no gender impact, but there was no evidence that we could see from which they concluded that there was no gender impact.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  I was going to say that Status of Women Canada put in place a website on which there's an e-learning module. I think it takes two or three hours to go through the GBA+ training. I understand that some departments are actively promoting the training right now. It might be a resou

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, thank you for this opportunity to discuss our 2015 Fall Report on gender-based analysis. Gender-based analysis (GBA) is an analytical tool for assessing the gender-specific impacts of policies, legislation, and programs on women and men. This tool is intended to help

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I'll go back to some of the issues we saw in the report. The first thing we saw was that the framework to introduce GBA was not applied uniformly across the sample departments. At the end of the report, in paragraph 1.58, we suggest a number of barriers that could expl