Status of Women committee  I can say that at Natural Resources Canada we keep track of where things progress through GBAs, and internal reporting comes to me, as champion. I've shared some of that data with you today.

Status of Women committee  The level of data and the quality of data varies by policy area. We seek to use the best data available depending on the area. In terms of a specific example for you, I'm not equipped to be specific about the data on any one given example today. I recognize that it might make i

Status of Women committee  Yes, I can give you the example of the aboriginal forestry initiative, and I think that was in 2011 or 2012, so it predates the conversation we're having about mandatory GBA+ in NRCan, but that's a tangible example where running a gender-based lens and doing a gender-based analys

Status of Women committee  That's an interesting question. I mentioned labour market availability to begin with, and certainly one benchmark that we look at is labour market availability. So when we look at our own workforce or consider issues you have to be realistic about the starting point and about t

Status of Women committee  I would answer more generally, Madam Chair, just to say that in areas where our department engages with indigenous groups and some remote communities, we find a gender lens to be very helpful in making sure that we have a broad spectrum of engagement opportunities to make sure th

Status of Women committee  Yes, in the case of NRCan, we do find our capacity to be uneven, and so we play a support as well as a challenge function to those submissions. We work iteratively—that's a polite way to put it—with some of our organizations, and that includes both within the department and withi

Status of Women committee  Sorry, I misunderstood the question. I was speaking about our internal process. Within the department we play a challenge function and we return proposals. I'm not aware of any cases where a central agency has asked us to redo or reconsider our GBA.

Status of Women committee  I can start and just say that I'm not aware of any cases where we sort of regretted not having done a GBA and sort of caught ourselves. I certainly can't recall that being the case. What I can tell you is there have been cases where we have done a GBA and have found it very enlig

Status of Women committee  I think the answer to that is yes, but I don't have those with me. I'd be happy to provide data.

Status of Women committee  I don't know how definitive I should be in my remarks here, so let me say that it has been a long-standing challenge in terms of the labour market availability for both the geographical locations and for the types of occupations we see in the natural resource sectors. The 80-20 r

Status of Women committee  I will get back through the clerk with that trend analysis, though I should say that rule of thumb has been cited to me in the past as well. I will try to provide what I can in terms of a trend analysis.

Status of Women committee  Perhaps I'll start. We work very closely with Statistics Canada, which is world class as a statistical data provider, and we have a great relationship with them. If you ask an economist or a statistician whether they have all the data they need, you will always get the answer th

Status of Women committee  While Mitch is looking for his reference, I just want to mention that I did provide the clerk of the committee with the GBA questionnaire that NRCan does, and I know that other departments use a similar one. If you are looking for a tangible example, I would refer to that as well

Status of Women committee  I won't repeat what my colleague said. I agree with it all. But if you're looking for something tangible, I would add that having people with expertise who are embedded in different policy centres makes a big difference. I think it's important to have people who have dedicated ti

Status of Women committee  Thank you all for the opportunity to discuss Natural Resources Canada's efforts to implement gender-based analysis. I am NRCan's GBA+ champion. As such, I believe GBA+ is a useful analytical tool for assessing the gender-specific impacts of initiatives on women and men, and it