Government Operations committee  There are three now.

Government Operations committee  Marcia.

Government Operations committee  Thanks very much for the question. In terms of the statutory payments that are made each year to make sure the public service pension plan is financially sound, there are really two types of inputs that go in. They are what the employees contribute through their paycheques, and

Status of Women committee  Maybe I can add one or two more. I'll give you the not so obvious case. You might recall that in 2010, a boatload of Tamil refugees showed up on the B.C. coast. The border services agency needed urgent funding to take care of these people. There were over 500 of them. Intuitivel

Status of Women committee  With the departments and agencies we deal with in the area of health and a lot of the social programs at ESDC, gender-based analysis is an integral part of their program design, and we're finding that it's working very well. It isn't a struggle to get the data and information fro

Status of Women committee  The only thing I would add is that I want to take responsibility for our challenge function. We needed to adapt it and we needed to set better expectations with departments. I want to reiterate my colleague's point. It isn't easy. It's not perfect out there. Gender...is hard to

Status of Women committee  To answer that question, I have to explain our challenge function to you a little bit. When you develop a new program, there are a lot of things the department has to consider. First is the objective of the program and the timelines. Maybe I will go back to answer your question

Status of Women committee  If my colleague from Status of Women Canada were here, she'd tell you that we actually get together with our champions all across government. That's where we're sharing our best practices. It's really starting to help us raise awareness, share good ideas, and make it easier for d

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for the invitation. Before I start, I will say that I think you'll find there are a lot of similarities. First, I just want to set levels. What departments do when they go to PCO is to get their cabinet approvals, but they often come to Treasury Board if the

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, if it would be all right with you, could we start with PCO? You'll see the link in the progression of our discussion. Would that be all right?

Government Operations committee  Unfortunately, I don't have that information with me.

Government Operations committee  No, it's not. But we could follow up on that exactly and get back to you on that, because that should be very clearly mentioned in their RPP.

Government Operations committee  I don't have their RPTs with me.

Government Operations committee  Let me see if I can clarify what I think you're asking. The Canada School of Public Service used to cost-recover some of its courses. It did have a base budget as well to deliver government-wide programs or training programs.

Government Operations committee  Right. It was a combination an assessment, as Brian said—this was done in close consultation with all departments—so an estimate of the funding that departments were building into their own training budgets for certain common courses that were high priority, and that funding was