Status of Women committee  If I may, I would suggest that your clerk make contact with Jacques Maziade, the clerk of the human resources committee. These are out of print, actually. We really don't have them. They had taken it upon themselves.... We gave them our last two English and French originals, an

Status of Women committee  I think it's been said. I'm not putting any guesses on it.

Status of Women committee  I'll try to answer quite briefly. The comments I was referring to were made by Glenn Drover, who was representing the Canadian Association of Social Workers, which has done a lot of work on women in the economy recently. He was referring to standard measures that both Statistic

Status of Women committee  I was going to quickly follow up. Some people get really frustrated when they hear discussions like this. Who in this room understands what goes into the GDP? Anybody? Nobody complains about it as an indicator. Why do we put excessive demands on these gender-equality things? It c

Status of Women committee  No, only that I would agree with Heather very much. The wealth of data is there. It really is up to departments to analyze it. I am not sure that I am confident at this point in time that there is a really strong analytical capability in government, and I think there's a strong a

Status of Women committee  Only if people are listened to. I know non-governmental organizations that have made presentation after presentation after presentation and have said the same thing for years and years and years to pre-budget committees, and there's no evidence that anybody heard anything they sa

Status of Women committee  Shall I answer the question? Just thinking about models and the way Canada is doing things generally, compared to some other countries, and to answer the first part about vision, I think at the federal level we really don't see this, but it is happening in other parts of Canada

Status of Women committee  New Zealand and Australia are also going that way. Canada really is out of step.

Status of Women committee  I'm not the expert on employment insurance. The council's position is that it's something that really needs to be fixed. I would also mention, just to substantiate your view on this, that when we did a major online questionnaire about poverty and insecurity in 2006, we got tremen

Status of Women committee  I think the most important thing is that this information is really outdated. It was done by Neil Brooks, who is a real tax expert. To my knowledge, nothing like that has been done since by government or others outside government. I think there are pieces of it, but to us this is

Status of Women committee  In partial response to that and an earlier question, if I could have 20 seconds on that—

Status of Women committee  One of the interesting things I did when I came on as director was that I asked people at Statistics Canada—not Heather's group, but another group—to come to talk to me about everything that's available, everything that I could possibly use. Then we'd sit down and see. I think

Status of Women committee  That's a really easy question. It's very difficult. When I was speaking about recommendations, I was speaking more specifically about the National Council of Welfare's recommendations related to poverty. Obviously there is a large gender-equality dimension in that and in the wor

Status of Women committee  May I also have a two-minute warning, so I can truncate some things at the tail end of my presentation and leave it for questions?

Status of Women committee  Thank you. First, I'd like to thank the committee very much for the opportunity to answer some of the questions I believe you have related to statistics and data for gender budgeting, especially with regard to three publications, a couple of which Heather has already mentioned: