Status of Women committee  Thank you. I'm pleased to be here today as you launch your study on the economic security of women and their equal participation in the economy. This study is relevant and timely. Significant momentum to address gender disparities has been created, from achieving gender parity i

Status of Women committee  That's a great question, and it's one that I'd love to give some thought to and get back to you with a considered answer.

Status of Women committee  It's very much a process about the memorandum to cabinet proposals that we're seeing. They're getting better and better all the time, but we're going to be working more and more with departments on mitigation strategies. Once again, if they have good research available to them—a

Status of Women committee  I may invite my colleague, Nanci-Jean Waugh, up again, but I'll do my best to at least start an answer. In terms of entrepreneurs, there were three parts to that programming. There were trade missions. There was the “It Starts With One” campaign, which was a mentoring campaign.

Status of Women committee  We were involved in the corporations act work.

Status of Women committee  We were very much at the time....

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  The papers were related directly to the minister's mandate letter item to develop a federal strategy on gender-based violence. They were examining different aspects of the gaps in data and research that are available, and knowledge transfer, in relation to this specific issue. A

Status of Women committee  If you recall, part of the action plan on gender-based analysis that came out of the Auditor General's report indicated a few different actions, one of which was monitoring and reporting. We've started this process with the deputy minister survey we mentioned to you, to get at

Status of Women committee  Do we have a bullet point on it? Feel free to jump in on that one.

Status of Women committee  We're doing security cluster training and they are also involved in that, so they will be investing in that training themselves.

Status of Women committee  I don't think any of us has been here since the beginning of GBA, but what I can say is that there has been a very large shift. It is a big ship to turn, but in the past year and a half, there has been a very concerted effort by departments to do GBA in a very different way. The

Status of Women committee  Yes, we have done fairly extensive international comparisons. For example, last year as a follow-up to the Auditor General's report on gender-based analysis, we did that. Also, I was in Europe last year and had an opportunity to speak to other countries that we tend to look up to

Status of Women committee  This past year the focus of the new funding for research and evaluation has been to support the minister's mandate item related to gender-based violence. As the minister referred to earlier, we did commission a few studies related to data needs on the issue of gender-based violen

Status of Women committee  The difference that budget 2016 made is enormous, certainly, in order to be able to increase our own capacity. Again, as enablers, we feel that right now we have our hands full and we're doing what we can. The question is, what is the perfect number of people? What will be real