Status of Women committee  The three main issues, the three broad... As you work through the steps, this is going to guide how you use the questions in your reference guide on the shower sheet--and Hélène has explained why I called it that. What you want to keep in mind is—and this is the big picture; y

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Correct.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Hélène. So we're going to look at the two case studies you have in front of you. There's the tax-free savings account, and there's the working income tax benefit, which came out of the budget of 2007. I'd like us to split into two groups. Persons an each side of the

Status of Women committee  Do the people on this side of the table have a preference for a particular case study? The other side could tackle the other case study.

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Bonjour, tout le monde. As Hélène mentioned, we prepared something prior to being told what you actually wanted. That's fine. It gives me the opportunity to explain a little bit about what we said on February 14. I think it will help you under

Status of Women committee  This ties in with a suggestion we made in our presentation last December about the theoretical contextualization of budgets. We had suggested that all departments incorporate gender-based analysis into their activities. Ultimately, this approach would have an impact on the budget

Status of Women committee  I think the sense for them was to first get it embedded solidly in one area and then start expanding it out. I'd be hesitant to use terms like “there's a long way to go or there isn't”, because it's quite relative. As far as what other countries are doing, you'd have to see how

Status of Women committee  There's that magic bullet again. Seriously though, we could send you a document listing those countries that adopted gender-based budgeting and then discarded this approach and explaining what led to that decision. Again, different countries opt for different approaches. For exa

Status of Women committee  I think for them the expectation is that because they're learning how to apply GBA, they will continue to apply it to the elements of the budget as they develop it. But it's best that you talk to them directly about anything further than that. There are many different areas they

Status of Women committee  It's the department, yes. Finance could explain to you why they chose to start with the tax policy side.

Status of Women committee  They're not doing a study per se. They're applying GBA to the tax policies where they're able to. They're not any different from other departments that are constrained by the availability or lack of data. Often, no matter which department you talk to, at a certain point you're go

Status of Women committee  The Department of Finance already made that decision, because they opened up training to the entire department as of January. So it's already being rolled out to other areas of Finance.

Status of Women committee  Yes. They opened it up to everybody. They can talk to you about this, but in their view that constitutes the beginning of a mainstreaming process, in the sense that they are going to make their various branches responsible for the implementation of GBA within that branch mandate.

Status of Women committee  There are a variety of ways of working with the departments. One of the golden rules we've learned over time is to take the department where it's at. If the department says this is the area we're going to focus on, then that's the area we focus on with them. That's part of the su