Status of Women committee  I'm not familiar with the study you're referring to, so I'm not exactly sure what the author was referring to. I think over the past few years, certainly with respect to our department, there have been improvements in the employment insurance system, for example, with respect t

Status of Women committee  I suspect we all do in the sense that any time a policy proposal is submitted for cabinet consideration, all policy proposals go through fairly elaborate interdepartmental consultation processes. So Status of Women Canada is always a participant in that process. That's another la

Status of Women committee  It's the same for us. We work with Status of Women, but increasingly we are trying to build up our own expertise and our own tools. For example, I mentioned the case studies we use during training events. I think we have the capacity internally to work on those, and that's one th

Status of Women committee  We have, as I mentioned in my comments, a unit of three FTEs dedicated to that. Unfortunately, I can't tell you what the operating budget is, because that's where some of the training is, but I could get you that information.

Status of Women committee  As I said in my comments, we do it for every policy we work on.

Status of Women committee  I'll quickly do that. I just want to make sure I touch upon the challenge function. So we take this integrated approach to gender-based analysis, but then each policy or program proposal first goes through a DG-level committee, and it gets challenged with respect to a whole ra

Status of Women committee  Kathy O'Hara, senior associate deputy minister at Human Resources and Social Development.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to speak about the measures our department is taking to ensure that gender-based analysis is applied to our policies and programs. We believe that solid analysis on a wide range of issues, including gender, is key to fulfilling our depar