Status of Women committee  I don't know if I'd be able to tell you specifically about any item in the budget. I think that's something you would have to ask the Department of Finance.

Status of Women committee  I think it would have to be the Department of Finance, actually. There is a fair bit of disaggregated data in Canada. It is a challenge in other places, but sometimes it's a challenge getting access to it and being able to put it in the right place or ascertaining whether that d

Status of Women committee  Ms. Dwyer-Renaud, one of the experts in this area, will answer that.

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's correct. I'll do the presentation, and then Hélène will answer questions too.

Status of Women committee  Today we have a deck that we've prepared. It provides a little bit more of an overview; it's not a particular point of view. What is gender budgeting? It is not a separate budget for women. It is an analysis of how a government finds revenues and how it spends public monies from

Status of Women committee  May I just say, with respect to the list of groups that were not approved, because of privacy we have to ask them for their permission to release that information. That could take a little longer than December 10.

Status of Women committee  We can give you the ones that were approved. What we cannot give you, without getting the consent of the groups involved, are the ones that were not approved on this round.

Status of Women committee  We will seek their consent, yes.

Status of Women committee  As we said, we are looking and we have been talking to the research granting councils, such as the social science research council and the science granting councils, to ensure they are doing research that relates to the concerns and needs of women and maybe have gender-based anal

Status of Women committee  This would be documentation that's in the hands of the Department of Finance, so I think you may have to request that information directly from them.

Status of Women committee  I think that report should be available to the committee, and we'll make sure you get a copy of it.

Status of Women committee  I think if you ask any head of any organization, they would always say there are some things they'd like to do, that they never have enough resources to do what they'd like. What we are trying to do is to work in the areas that we think will get the best benefits, like the areas

Status of Women committee  Well, if you say I'm coming back on December 10, then we will be here.

Status of Women committee  Okay.

Status of Women committee  To start with the last one, I'm not a member of any organization. The reason I'm not a member of any organization is that in my position in the government, and now, I need to be impartial and to deal with all organizations that put applications before us. In terms of people who