Finance committee  As a comparison with respect to the educational campaign, we outlined what the impact of that was, to some extent. I think we would expect from an educational campaign related to lifestyle, and specifically to obesity, that you would probably see the same impact down the line. It

Finance committee  I guess I would want to point back to one portion in the brief that responds to a question that was asked before which I didn't have time to answer. It speaks to the fact that gender equality, as it relates to income and influence, has been directly related to health, and in part

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  Yes. I can't say which departments exactly are targeted, but the reference was to the Women's Program.

Finance committee  If you look down the second-last page of my brief, the federation's parent organization, Medical Women's International Association, has produced a gender mainstreaming manual. I think gender analysis doesn't favour one gender over another; it favours the equality of gender. So we

Finance committee  A gender lens would allow you to look at whether or not a certain program is being looked at fairly from the point of view of both genders. So it's something that ensures equality.

Finance committee  It is a yes.

Finance committee  I have to say, I'm not familiar with the statistics with respect to the two, but I point out in the second-last paragraph that the inter-gender working group of the United States Agency for International Development has actually done studies on the efficacy of using a gender lens

Finance committee  Thank you. Mr. Chair and members of the committee, My name is Gail Beck. I work as a physician in Ottawa and I'm the President of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada. The Federation of Medical Women of Canada represents Canada's women physicians, and we are honoured to