Environment committee  I think your question really pertains to the second element, which is government decisions and government policy. That's not something I can comment on.

Environment committee  Madam Chair, I have a colleague from our tax policy branch here, and if you'd like to have a detailed answer to that question I would suggest that he would be best placed to provide that to you.

Environment committee  It is my colleague Miodrag Jovanovic. He is general director of the tax policy branch, so the work that his group does touches on that directly.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for inviting me to address you today. I am the assistant deputy minister of the economic development and corporate finance branch at the Department of Finance Canada. I am also the gender-based analysis champion for the department. The Department of Fina

Status of Women committee  It really starts with the list of stakeholder organizations, ensuring that it is a full and representative list. I think that comes from a commitment by our minister's office to do that. Because it is an annual event, there is a historical element, too. It is a list we can go bac

Status of Women committee  I am sorry. I am having a problem with an echo. The 2009 report commitment to...?

Status of Women committee  The department does not publish the gender-based analyses that are performed by the department, in the same way that we don't publish analysis more generally that is provided to the minister for decision-making. That is treated as part of the confidential material provided to the

Status of Women committee  It is a two-phase process, as it is, say, for our strategic environmental assessment. I would go back to my remarks that there are two types of proposals we look at. One would be a proposal coming from another minister or department, where a GBA is performed by that responsible d

Status of Women committee  I suspect that on a system-wide basis it is very similar to the kind of approach we had to take as a department, namely, that there has to be a commitment that it is important—and I believe I heard some of the remarks by my Treasury Board Secretariat colleague on this. There has

Status of Women committee  In terms of the advice the department provides to the minister to budget for the budget, there really are two types of proposals, as I outlined. One would be where a proposal is advanced by another minister or another department. In those cases, it's the responsibility of that mi

Status of Women committee  We tend not to duplicate it, but if we see something that has been missed, we would go back to the department and ask them for any further analysis we think we need to have for a full proposal to our minister.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry. Are you asking me?

Status of Women committee  Any decisions that were included in the budget had gender-based analysis performed on those proposals. All tax policy proposals had gender-based analysis performed. Tax policy is the responsibility of the Department of Finance, so we do gender-based analysis on all tax policy pro

Status of Women committee  It is part of a full briefing to the minister to include gender-based analysis, and that's why we perform gender-based analysis on all proposals.

Status of Women committee  We strive to fully inform the minister for the purpose of making decisions for the budget.