Government Operations committee  I am Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, associate secretary.

Government Operations committee  Thank you, Mr. Minister. There are two parts to your question. I'll address the first part related to corporate administrative services, then I'll ask my colleague, David Moloney, to speak to the expenditure management information system. Over the last number of years, the gove

Government Operations committee  We would expect to be going to the ministers with the results of the business case and with potential options in the fall.

Government Operations committee  I'll turn it over to my colleague on expenditure management.

Government Operations committee  I think probably David.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm Linda Lizotte-MacPherson, associate secretary with the Treasury Board.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the invitation to appear before your committee on the Treasury Board Secretariat's progress in the area of gender-based analysis. I am pleased to have with me Monique Boudrias from the Public Service Human Resources Management Agency of Canada. As part of the Treas

Status of Women committee  Okay. We have a tool we use that specifically asks if there is a potential impact, and if there is, there has to be a thorough analysis done. We also have a broad manage-the-MRRS policy that really requires the department to lay out the specific performance indicators.

Status of Women committee  That would be the same for us as well in all of our management policies. It's an integrated part of it. Similarly, on the training side, it's now integrated into our annual training process, so we don't have a separate budget. It's integrated with training as well.

Status of Women committee  Well, in our case, management policies would go to Treasury Board ministers for approval, and yes, that analysis would be done in advance of that. They would never go to Treasury Board without that analysis and understanding of potential impact.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question.

Status of Women committee  Actually, I just wanted to respond to the previous question you had about some of the changes we've seen inside the core public administration, as an employer. What our research has found is that over the past 15 years, the gender wage gap itself has actually shrunk by more than

Status of Women committee  This is our research, and it was undertaken subsequent to a request by this committee. We found that this wage gap reduction was really the result of a number of factors, including the effectiveness of our employment equity programs, pay equity settlements, the professionalizat

Status of Women committee  We have launched an initiative to review all of our policies, and we're about halfway through that. We have provided training for the folks who are actually developing the policies, so when they are preparing them, they're sensitive to that and understand what it means from a pol

Status of Women committee  So far, 27 new policies have been updated or approved. We've altered some, but there has not been an impact from a gender perspective. But those are related more to financial management, internal audit, and so forth. We're now getting into the human resources ones, and that's w