Status of Women committee  I would suggest that we do that as a team of senior managers responsible for the agency. As deputy minister, I'm a senior adviser to the minister when it comes to all policy, program, operational, and corporate issues. However, we are divided into different branches in the organi

Status of Women committee  I would say again that we work as a team. We're all responsible for elements of that. Certainly, when it comes to policy initiatives of other government departments, we generally can sit on interdepartmental committees or in different fora. We can comment on issues. We can work p

Status of Women committee  If I can clarify, Madam Chair, “this” being women's issues, gender issues, sir?

Status of Women committee  Okay. I would say that definitely I've seen a change. I've been in government for almost 20 years now in various departments, and for six months here at Status of Women. I can say that there has been a shift in culture and thinking, certainly at my senior management tables, arou

Status of Women committee  Silos and the horizontality is a very pervasive challenge across government, I would say, on many issues, gender issues certainly being one of them. I'm not going to say that it's an easy endeavour to undertake. However, it's one that we're consistently working at. An example w

Status of Women committee  Being new to this role and being new to your committee, I'm not exactly certain as to what you have undertaken so far—and probably my colleagues are—but I know that from my own perspective, certainly, learning for me in this area has probably been most effective in terms of some

Status of Women committee  What Justine was referring to is a Stats Canada population-based survey where there would be an identifier for students per se, post-secondary students. When it comes to calls for proposals, we're absolutely open to those kinds of initiatives. Justine and Nancy, feel free to co

Status of Women committee  Thank you to the committee for having me. This is my first appearance as deputy minister of status of women, which is a new position, and it's a great honour to be here. In response to that particular transfer, $50,000 being transferred to the Department of Innovation, Science a

Status of Women committee  From my perspective as deputy minister, I see the actual start when we actually begin to have people in place in the knowledge centre. We're at a point in time where we're staffing those opportunities and looking at various individuals. Also, we're looking at finalizing a resea