Public Accounts committee  I would just add to what my colleague said by explaining that we have decided to make investments in improving the data, the evidence base, which would apply to a whole host of policy decisions. It is getting to the point about when you need to do this. You need to have some inve

Public Accounts committee  We made it mandatory last year that all employees in the department take the training. When they do, they gain the insight that this is about doing their jobs well and applying rigorous thinking. It's about seeking data sources and thinking things through. It's extremely well don

Public Accounts committee  That's exactly why we provided the funding to supplement information on particular women in education and technology, to have more facts on hand when we're doing the work we do.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the invitation to present to the committee today. Gender-based analysis is important to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Departmental staff work actively to support the application of GBA to policies and programs throughout the de

Status of Women committee  When it comes down to it, it's just a matter of having people understand what this is and is not. I really want to commend Status of Women Canada. If you haven't taken the online course, I encourage you to.

Status of Women committee  I found it really enlightening. Really what it told me, bringing it down to brass tacks, is that it's about doing your job properly. It's a simple matter of doing rigorous work to move beyond the superficial and to get the data you need to undertake an analysis about how programs

Status of Women committee  I just think it quite simply tells everyone what's important in that what you measure is what becomes important in an organization. The fact that senior management, our deputy ministers, indicated that this is something all employees should do, must do, as part of becoming an emp

Status of Women committee  I will take the opportunity to plug some good work that I think is part of the answer in getting better information and data, and it gets to the point of what resources the department uses to draw on. The Council of Canadian Academies, if you are familiar with it, is a foundatio

Status of Women committee  In terms of what the practice looks like, I wouldn't say that we are in any way different or divergent from the other departments. We have a very rigorous questionnaire, and there is a checklist. It takes you through a series of questions that you have to look at, the fundamental

Status of Women committee  He is going to show me the specific...because I want to quote to you from our actual policy document.

Status of Women committee  I will answer the second question you posed, which is about what we will be doing next. I don't think this is something we can declare “work complete”. That was where I was talking about the two measures we are studying right now. Getting people like this fine lady here who is po

Status of Women committee  I'll cite a couple of examples. Take a look at the Canada research chairs, which is a program offered by the granting council and part of our portfolio. In terms of trend, and you're looking for where we were and where we are now, I can share with you that the CRCs in 2001, 14% w

Status of Women committee  It's Industry, Science, and Economic Development, and we're calling it ISED. If we say it enough it will become the acronym, and then no one will know what we're talking about. Yes, we have similar requirements in our department to have that work done on a mandatory basis.

Status of Women committee  It's within the department. It's incumbent upon us to do this work within our organizations. Our deputies operate under the policy and should make sure it's done. There are certainly circumstances where proposals will come forward, and the first assessment of whether a full GBA a

Status of Women committee  Well, I would say more importantly it's actually happening before it ever gets to go to the cabinet table or the Treasury Board committee, because it's incumbent upon departments to see that it's done. Then we're essentially giving accounting to the central agencies that it's bee