Status of Women committee  I'd like to interject for a moment on why we call these the shower sheets. It's a little bit of a joke for us. We are hoping that the public servants will hang them in their showers in the morning before they come to work and memorize these questions, so once they've done their t

Status of Women committee  Is it agreeable to the committee to work in small groups?

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  I'll stick with the budget. Usually in a training session--and I'm sure some of you have been educators in the past--when you have the students in the room, you usually don't have visitors or parents in the room. So depending on how the committee wants to proceed, if the commit

Status of Women committee  Okay. To you, my dear.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this training session. I wanted to give you a bit of housekeeping and historical detail before we start, and then I'm going to leave it in the capable hands of Michèle, but I'll stay for the whole session. The training

Status of Women committee  I'm not the statistics expert, but I don't think we're talking about exactly the same thing. The indicators project—I'm going to ask Suzanne Cooper if we have the time afterwards—is gathering data. We don't yet know whether there are any deficiencies in the data. In the event th

Status of Women committee  The exercise isn't based on a partnership model. We're trying to open the door to as many people as possible, whether it be individuals or various non-governmental groups, in order to examine and establish indicators. The way to do that remains to be determined, but there are va

Status of Women committee  Ideally, that's exactly the process that should happen, and ideally it means that the department that sponsors the legislation should be doing that kind of analysis from day one when it starts thinking about the bill. We're not there yet, so that's why you're seeing bills and leg

Status of Women committee  We look forward to your recommendations.

Status of Women committee  I'm going to take that and venture a little further. I don't consider the situation from the standpoint of poverty versus health. In my mind, the world is divided into two groups: people who make decisions and those who implement them and do the basic analysis. I must admit that

Status of Women committee  Yes, I'll do it from the perspective of gender-based analysis processes, and Suzanne may want to add to that from the standpoint of indicators, perhaps, if it's of interest. This tiraillement, this pulling of the blanket—I'm trying to find the right word in English—has been hist

Status of Women committee  Maybe I have a question for you. I'm not sure what is meant by “wrong model”. I think I need to understand a little bit better.

Status of Women committee  We're not doing check-off lists. There are some countries who go for the check-off list. We felt it was not efficient. A check-off list never tells you if you actually have reached people and if you've changed their behaviour. I know that you've had discussions about training.

Status of Women committee  This is the Department of Finance response, right, to the Commonwealth questionnaire?