Status of Women committee  Who told you data wasn't available?

Status of Women committee  I think within government as a whole it really depends on the initiative and the processes going through. Some of the analysis has to be qualitative and some of it can be quantitative. One of the reasons our centre of expertise is in our tax policy branch is because you can act

Status of Women committee  I want to thank you for your question because it's very important. You would be interested in the working income tax benefit (WITB). During our analysis, we did a case study, and WITB had an impact on individuals experiencing employment transition. The government committed us

Status of Women committee  No, there's not. In fact, there's a deliberate choice made there. Perhaps you could do that, but we would rather have all our analysts familiar with the analytical approach to that. So it's not one unit; it's all units. Although we started in tax policy, we've now broadened tha

Status of Women committee  I don't believe we do have a formal policy. I know we report on progress through our annual report on plans and priorities to Treasury Board, and we could certainly look at our assessment of that. That's a benchmark for progress we make on all the government's policies, and we'd

Status of Women committee  Not at all.

Status of Women committee  I could have Louise go through the details of it, but it would apply to the eight-step approach to analysis that we've worked out with the Status of Women, plus case studies of how we approach specific analyses or specific issues within the department. Perhaps, Louise, you coul

Status of Women committee  It would be after. They are a compilation of the individual items that were sent, as part of the budget process itself, and I don't think we rolled it up until after the budget.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry. Let me be clear. For the budget process, every initiative that goes up to the budget, whether it is in the budget or not, has had a gender-based analysis, and in these reports we've rolled up all the decisions from the budget and put them into one package after the b

Status of Women committee  The work is done before.

Status of Women committee  First of all, we've provided a template of the analysis we do on each budget initiative, which shows you the situates, the gender-based analysis to the overall analysis, and I think we've also committed to the Status of Women and others to put one of our analyses on the website a

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. It's a pleasure for me to be here today. It has been about a year since my last appearance before the committee. I remain proud of the progress we're making on gender-based analysis in the department. I know my colleagues, Louise Levonian and M

Status of Women committee  We don't have a separate gender-based analysis unit; we have a champion, a senior executive, Louise Levonian. We've instituted a process to train all new staff in gender-based analysis. We've worked with Canadian Status of Women in terms of outlining the program for that analysis

Status of Women committee  I wasn't here for the 2006 budget, but I know there were some important decisions as part of that budget. There were also some important discussions here. I know that Minister Flaherty met with his counterpart, including Judy Wasylycia-Leis. In terms of child care, she emphasized

Status of Women committee  That's right. Again, it's a first step. What we're looking at is an annual stock-taking. Also, my comment regarding Madame Demers' point was that the progress we've made—which is meaningful, and there are still challenges—has been over a 10-year period. We need a mechanism in