Status of Women committee  I think Status of Women Canada and the ministers have looked at all of the reports when we've talked about gender-based analysis. I think there was a real emphasis on moving towards accountability, for example, and that is what we have been attempting to do through our work with

Status of Women committee  There are the main estimates and the supplementary estimates. We also do this through public accounts. In addition, we submit a number of reports, including the departmental performance report, which tells how the money was expended.

Status of Women committee  In regard to your second question, yes, our research will continue to be available on our website. In answer to the first question, throughout the government there is a fair bit of research that deals with women's issues. Statistics Canada does a great deal of research, and we h

Status of Women committee  And we actually needed it this year because of the number of projects, some of which are two and three years and require a considerable amount of funding this year.

Status of Women committee  Re-profiling.

Status of Women committee  I'm going to ask my head of corporate to answer that for you, to make sure it's absolutely right.

Status of Women committee  The operating money is what we use to do some of our extra research work, beyond what's required for staff. For example, we would use operations money for the indicators project, gender-based analysis, our federal–provincial–territorial work, and our international work, because a

Status of Women committee  I think it's like any other public policy-making program, where obviously the government works to accommodate those regional differences. In our programming, of course, we look at the individual applications that are coming in. They indicate what some of the region's challenges

Status of Women committee  Is that your question?

Status of Women committee  I like to think we will have influence. But I think the action plan will be developed the way policy and plans are normally developed. It's a relationship between the direction from our ministers, from the government of the day, and the work we do in moving forward to implement a

Status of Women committee  Simply because we don't have as many offices doesn't mean we aren't able to be in touch with the regions. There are a number of ways we can be in touch. Over this past year, along with the director general of the women's program, we travelled extensively across the country, meet

Status of Women committee  We are working with the central agencies to ensure that the champions do have access to all the work that's being done in the department. As you're aware, we were doing some training this winter to expand the gender-based analysis work of Finance from tax policy into their econom

Status of Women committee  We haven't done a formal study, but obviously we've been working very closely with our regional members of Status of Women to change the way we deliver service, to get feedback from the groups. Normally a formal evaluation is done as part of an evaluation plan, but that will be s

Status of Women committee  When we talk about strategic projects, we're not necessarily talking about formal consultation and strategic partnerships. We do work together with departments in trying to identify gaps, and of course in our discussions with groups, as our regions work with them, as we look at t

Status of Women committee  I think there's some confusion between the program funding and the overall budget of Status of Women. The program funding was $10 million, up until the addition of the $10 million ongoing for each year.