Status of Women committee  I still think they are the same barriers that have been identified previously. It's really about having competencies. It's different for different departments. In some cases, there is just not an awareness of what this is or what you're supposed to do. In other cases, they're aw

Status of Women committee  I was going to say that I think there are two dimensions to it. One is that if you believe in diversity and people thinking in different ways as adding to the conversation, then one would see how that would be effective. Where I think we have more room to grow is on the innova

Status of Women committee  We don't have that information.

Status of Women committee  From us...? We would be offering in-kind support, so I've certainly been engaged in a lot of training, but they want to develop their own gender-based analysis training. They're using our course as that awareness piece, knowing that in an operational environment, they're going to

Status of Women committee  Thanks for the question. I think it was in January that the chief of defence staff issued a directive on fully implementing the women, peace, and security initiative, the United Nations Security Council resolution 1325. It encompasses a whole bunch of things, and one of those is

Status of Women committee  In my understanding, the intent of the directive is to integrate gender considerations into operational planning. The idea is that, if an operation is being planned, they will be looking at the gender considerations on the ground and I've heard the chief of the defence staff say

Status of Women committee  Yes. The course, as you see it now, is actually version two of the course. We launched it in 2012 and then closely monitored the feedback we got on it to make sure that it was meeting people's needs. Then we did a more formal evaluation, and based on that, we changed the content.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We try to take the feedback on. When people do that evaluation at the end, it's not just going into the void; we really do look at it. We are looking at things such as who's taking it, and language differences too, whether it's making sense.

Status of Women committee  We could probably tell you by department, but we would have to come back to you on it. We're not allowed to keep specific information because of the Privacy Act, and in part because it's a web-based course, but we could probably give you the percentage of a department's employees

Status of Women committee  There are definitely departments where it's been done longer and where that awareness, especially in the social departments or justice or health, is maybe a bit more obvious and people have been doing it longer. There are departments that are newer to it, so they struggle with th

Status of Women committee  It may be a clarification of our role. We would not be in a position to do a GBA of a pipeline proposal because we don't have that internal expertise. However, I think what we are good at is being technical experts on what those underlying questions are that may not be obvious, b

Status of Women committee  To be honest, we may not even be aware of which specific project it is. There are certain rules that govern some of these documents. Again, our technical advice would be on, if you were undertaking that type of a project, how would you do a GBA, and I can definitely tell you that

Status of Women committee  Thanks for your question. The minister has covered a few of the good practices we're seeing and hearing about, and I would say that there are a lot of GBAs that look very promising, which we're going to be following. We're trying to do some work on the security side with the

Status of Women committee  We can't underscore enough the importance of leadership. It's one thing to have training available, and we can do that all we want, but we know that leadership is that critical piece. When we look at the departments that have been successful in implementing GBA, it's because it c

Status of Women committee  Yes, you're looking at her. We do have a GBA team. I'm the manager of that group, and I would say that it's mostly dedicated to developing those tools, delivering the training, and doing outreach and awareness raising.