Status of Women committee  That would be our case, and we've integrated GBA in our policy and program centres in terms of their work. In addition, as part of our expenditure analysis and compensation planning division, which is the team that prepared this particular report, we have a few people who are f

Status of Women committee  I might add to that, in terms of the report. Looking at the core public administration, the numbers that are included in the deck that was circulated include all employee types: casual, full-time, and part-time employees.

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, the other thing with the increasing trend that we're seeing in terms of collective agreements is there is a shift. There is much more of a focus, in new clauses, for example, on allowing pregnant employees to come back on a graduated basis. So we're starting to see s

Status of Women committee  That would not be part of our mandate. One of the other things we do look at is in terms of whether or not departments have sufficient policy capacity as part of that. We do the management accountability framework, or the MAF, assessment on an annual basis to really assess a depa

Status of Women committee  Our situation would be the same.

Status of Women committee  In terms of the reductions, I think there were some very clear criteria that the government set out to really assess whether or not a particular program should be cut. You'll recall in the budget the government promised to review all programs to make sure that every taxpayer dol

Status of Women committee  Not from an overall global perspective. Presumably, as departments were contemplating where the reductions were going to be, that would have been one of the factors that was considered. But, as I said, those were the four criteria. Those were the really primary lenses that were u

Status of Women committee  We have launched an initiative to review all of our policies, and we're about halfway through that. We have provided training for the folks who are actually developing the policies, so when they are preparing them, they're sensitive to that and understand what it means from a pol

Status of Women committee  So far, 27 new policies have been updated or approved. We've altered some, but there has not been an impact from a gender perspective. But those are related more to financial management, internal audit, and so forth. We're now getting into the human resources ones, and that's w

Status of Women committee  We're targeting to have the policies renewed and updated over the next 18 months.

Status of Women committee  Actually, I just wanted to respond to the previous question you had about some of the changes we've seen inside the core public administration, as an employer. What our research has found is that over the past 15 years, the gender wage gap itself has actually shrunk by more than

Status of Women committee  This is our research, and it was undertaken subsequent to a request by this committee. We found that this wage gap reduction was really the result of a number of factors, including the effectiveness of our employment equity programs, pay equity settlements, the professionalizat

Status of Women committee  I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question.

Status of Women committee  That would be the same for us as well in all of our management policies. It's an integrated part of it. Similarly, on the training side, it's now integrated into our annual training process, so we don't have a separate budget. It's integrated with training as well.

Status of Women committee  Well, in our case, management policies would go to Treasury Board ministers for approval, and yes, that analysis would be done in advance of that. They would never go to Treasury Board without that analysis and understanding of potential impact.