Status of Women committee  Actually, I'll correct that. It's a good opportunity for me to correct that. It's kind of grosso modo over time. It'll be roughly 25% a year, but for this year it was 15%. It was our first year doing it, so we took a smaller slice, but over that four years we will end up at the 1

Status of Women committee  The information with respect to those reviews is all contained in the budget, as the chair pointed out. Annex 3 to the budget, starting on page 252, lays out the specific detail around each of those 17 departments and agencies.

Status of Women committee  I circulated the specific tool that is used by analysts to review the submissions in order to give them a sense of the types of questions they would ask in order to assess whether or not there are GBA issues with the submission. I certainly think, from our perspective, that depar

Status of Women committee  I can't talk about a specific case that's real. What we have tried to do in the materials we've provided this morning was show how the process lines up. We have taken a hypothetical case and walked through how that process works and how the different steps work. But I cannot pr

Status of Women committee  With respect to strategic reviews, they are assessments of all direct program spending to ensure that programs are managed effectively and efficiently. Departments are responsible for conducting the review. The role of the Treasury Board Secretariat is to challenge the informati

Status of Women committee  I don't know the specifics of the Statistics Canada case in terms of what those areas are. To me, lower demand simply means that people aren't asking for the statistics in certain areas. But I don't know what's behind that, and I don't know the specifics of that case.

Status of Women committee  I certainly don't come to the committee thinking that we need to ask for resources. I don't think there's any issue there. I think that certainly within Treasury Board Secretariat we have the analysts that we need to do the job they're doing. They have the training that they need

Status of Women committee  I think there are a few points here. First, it's the way the system operates at the end of the day. It's difficult to measure whether the policy advice being provided to ministers is adequate. In essence, that's our role. Our role in this system is to provide ministers with the

Status of Women committee  I would add that in addition to having a champion at the assistant deputy minister level, as does PCO, we at TBS have also worked with Status of Women Canada to develop tools. I circulated one of them today, the questions to assist analysts in reviewing submissions so that they u

Status of Women committee  On the first question about bills, any government bill that is going to be introduced in Parliament goes through the MC process. As part of that process, interdepartmental committee meetings are held on it. Status of Women would have the opportunity to participate in those interd

Status of Women committee  On the question of program performance measurement, the management results of structure policy that we're putting in place, again we don't highlight a single policy lens through which we expect departments to measure and determine program effectiveness. It's expected that the dep

Status of Women committee  The way it works within the Treasury Board Secretariat is that there is a GBA champion. The GBA champion has overall responsibility for championing GBA, ensuring that there is training, and that it is integrated into the policy and program analysts' functions. My particular resp

Status of Women committee  Whether or not it's any better is a difficult question to answer, in some sense. I think that generally we're always getting better at doing policy analysis, whether it's gender-based analysis or official languages or sustainable development—whatever it may be. I think that as a

Status of Women committee  If I may, the job of Treasury Board analyst is to provide ministers with fulsome advice on proposals coming forward to the board. As part of that, if the analyst believes there is an issue with the gender-based analysis done by the department, they would flag that in the advice t

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.