Status of Women committee  I think it's $12,000, but let me just check.... Yes, the working income tax benefit begins to be phased in at $3,000. It's phased in at a rate of 20%. It plateaus, and then it phases out, for a single individual in 2007--because it's indexed, it grows every year--at $12,833.

Status of Women committee  At that level?

Status of Women committee  For a single mom, no, I don't believe so; not at that level.

Status of Women committee  I know that we have made much progress. As an economist, I see that we are on the right track.

Status of Women committee  The tax policy branch. I was one of them.

Status of Women committee  The documents you have are for 2006. So the tax rate for 2005 was lower, and for 2006 it was--

Status of Women committee  So the analysis is for 2006, and it's correct for 2006.

Status of Women committee  This is Baxter Williams. He's the director of the personal income tax division.

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Basically, we are responsible for informing the ministers, and the decisions are then up to them.

Status of Women committee  Unfortunately, that's not in my role as the gender-based analysis champion. That's a very broad policy question that you're asking, and it's not my place to answer that question.

Status of Women committee  The Department of Finance would be concerned globally about the fiscal reality that is faced, but I'm a tax policy person and the gender-based analysis champion for the department.

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I'm not going to be very much help. In my role as the gender-based analysis champion for the department, I raise the profile of gender-based analysis within the department and provide tools to ensure that people can do good gender-based analysis. But I don't feel quali

Status of Women committee  Just from a broader perspective, I really wouldn't want to comment. I know what we do within the Department of Finance, and I truly, truly believe that the work, the progress we've made, has been significant. And at the end of the day, public servants, in their heart of hearts,

Status of Women committee  With our system of government, yes.