Gender-based analysis plus: general information — Departmental Plan 2024-25

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• Section 1: Institutional GBA Plus Capacity
  • A. Governance structures
  • B. Human Resources:
  • C. Major Initiatives to Enhance GBA Plus Capacity:
    • 1. Research and analytical tools and data collection
    • 2. Awareness, resources, and training
• Section 2: Highlights of GBA Plus Results Reporting Capacity by Program
  • Core Responsibility 1: Creativity, arts and culture
    • Arts
    • Cultural Marketplace Framework
    • Cultural Industries Support and Development
  • Core Responsibility 2: Heritage and Celebrations
    • National celebrations, commemorations and symbols
    • Community engagement and heritage
    • Preservation of and access to heritage
    • Learning about Canadian History
  • Core Responsibility 3: Sport
    • Sport development and high performance
  • Core Responsibility 4: Diversity and Inclusion
    • Multiculturalism and anti-racism
    • Human rights
    • Indigenous languages
    • Youth engagement
  • Core Responsibility 5: Official Languages

Section 1: Institutional GBA Plus Capacity

A. Governance structures

In 2024–25, Canadian Heritage (PCH) will continue to implement Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) within the Department through a governance structure consisting of a GBA Plus Champion, a GBA Plus Responsibility Centre, and a GBA Plus Community of Practice.

The GBA Plus Responsibility Centre leads and coordinates GBA Plus activities at PCH and supports the application of GBA Plus in departmental policy, programs, and research activities by reviewing Memoranda to Cabinet, Treasury Board submissions and Budget proposals and by signing off on related GBA Plus analysis. It also plays an important role in planning, monitoring, and reporting on GBA Plus at PCH and fosters GBA Plus capacity-building at PCH through the Community of Practice, GBA Plus promotion and training, and special projects, as needed. Finally, the GBA Plus Responsibility Centre participates in whole-of-government GBA Plus work, including interdepartmental networks.

The GBA Plus Community of Practice consists of representatives at the working level from every branch, region, and corporate service area, and for which GBA Plus training is a membership requirement. Each branch is responsible for implementing GBA Plus within their area of responsibility. In 2024-25, the Community of Practice will meet quarterly, or as needed, to share training, resources, and information pertinent to GBA Plus.

In 2024–25, the GBA Plus Responsibility Centre will continue to undertake efforts to strengthen the rigour and intersectionality of GBA Plus, including leading a GBA Plus that is transformational and meaningful rather than initiative-driven or focused on data to the exclusion of the broader context. The GBA Plus Responsibility Centre will continue to support PCH’s participation in the work led by Women and Gender Equality Canada towards building an enhanced intersectional approach for fairness and inclusion.

Established in October 2023, the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Office offers departmental guidance to support the re-evaluation of biases and the transformation of departmental practices across professional and personal lives. The IDEA Office’s work is informed by evidence that reflects the lived experiences and distinct needs of diverse people and communities in Canada. Efforts are undertaken through a GBA Plus intersectionality lens, in partnership with equity-deserving groups, adhering to the principle of “Nothing without Us”, as well as underscores existing inequities and systemic disparities.

In 2024-25, the IDEA Office will be:

• conducting ongoing environmental scans to better understand PCH’s operating landscape: trends, developments, risks, opportunities, and insights relating to IDEA, and sharing of information across PCH on a regular basis.
• strengthening PCH Governance Structure to pursue and support efforts to advancing IDEA and ensure leadership accountability by empowering teams and mandating proactive change.
• continuing efforts to render PCH a more accessible and inclusive employer and service provider.
• developing a measurement framework to track progress in advancing our accessibility and EDI action plans; and
• promoting inclusive leadership accountability through Performance Management Agreements:
  • for increasing the representation of EE designated groups at all levels through staffing and retention
  • for creating a healthy and inclusive work environment; and
  • for addressing unconscious bias, racism, discrimination, and harassment in their sectors.

The following committee structure supports development of advice and decision-making on reconciliation and inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA) initiatives in the Department:

• IDEA Level 1 Committee, chaired by the Deputy Minister, is responsible for ensuring that senior management is aware and understands the extent of work required to advance IDEA in the Department.
• The Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Committee, chaired by the Deputy Minister, includes senior leaders and employees from Indigenous communities to support the Department’s reconciliation efforts and to address the barriers faced by Indigenous employees, such as retention and promotion.
• IDEA Level 2 Committee, chaired by an ADM and the Corporate Secretary, is an advisory committee that offers comments, suggestions and insights on IDEA work in the Department.

In addition, the following groups within the Department of Canadian Heritage have mandates that enhance the depth and breadth of GBA Plus within the Department, as well as within the Government of Canada:

• The Youth Secretariat aims to facilitate youth engagement, to amplify youth voices to affect positive change and to ensure youth perspectives are taken into consideration in government policy and decisions-making. Youth impact analysis is part of the implementation of Canada’s Youth Policy, a whole-of-government approach which seeks to engage youth perspectives to shape federal priorities, policies, and programs and improve outcomes for young people in Canada. A youth impact analysis should be conducted when a new initiative is proposed or an existing initiative is reviewed. Efforts undertaken to support the youth impact analysis help further deepen GBA Plus analysis of age considerations and other intersecting factors.
• Under the modernized Official Languages Act, Canadian Heritage is, among other things, mandated to advance the equality of status and use of English and French in Canadian society; and to inform Canadians about policies and programs relating to the promotion and achievement of the equality of status and use of English and French in Canadian society. To this end, the Department creates tools on Part VII of the Official Languages Act and makes them available to people and communities in Canada. Efforts undertaken to support the implementation of the Act help further deepen GBA plus analysis of language considerations and other intersecting factors.
• Sport Canada’s Gender Equity, Inclusion, and Innovation Unit informs sport policy and programming on considerations of intersecting identities in the context of sport equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. Furthermore, the Unit supports input and decision-making related to international and domestic sport policy engagement with governmental and non-governmental stakeholders. In June 2023, Sport Canada received funding approval for Gender Equity and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion research, programming, and to support organizational capacity. In 2024-25, five temporary positions will be created to support the launch and delivery of funding to organizations, in addition to the three existing staff who currently work on program policy issues as part of the Gender Equity, Inclusion and Innovation Unit.
• Reconciliation, Treaties and Engagement Branch, which was created in Fall 2021 to develop relevant and effective strategies to support Canadian Heritage-related priorities to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, provides expertise on Indigenous issues, including to further deepen GBA Plus departmental analyses.

B. Human Resources:

To support the above and other activities, the Department has the following human resources dedicated to supporting GBA Plus objectives:

• 1 ADM Champion;
• 3.0 full time equivalents (FTEs) in the GBA Plus Responsibility Centre, including 1 GBA Plus Focal Point for the Department; and
• 52 branch, regional and corporate representatives in the GBA Plus Community of Practice (an average of 8.7 FTEs per sector)

Furthermore, a total of 11.05 FTEs have been dedicated within the following specific teams:

• Strategic Policy, Planning and Corporate Affairs (excluding GBA Plus Responsibility Centre at PCH): 5.25
• Sport, Major Events and Commemorations: 8.15
• Cultural Affairs: 1.15
• Community and Identity: 0.55
• Corporate Services: 0.50
• Official Languages, Heritage and Regions: 0.45

C. Major Initiatives to Enhance GBA Plus Capacity:

1. Research and analytical tools and data collection

Developed in 2023 by the Youth Secretariat in collaboration with federal partners, the Youth Impact Analysis tool is part of the suite of GBA Plus resources employed by the Government of Canada. The tool provides a framework and a set of analytical questions and case studies to help determine how a proposed or existing initiative affects youth, including particular and intersecting sub-populations of youth. It continues to have a broad application across the Department’s programs and policies, as well as with other departments and agencies across government, through the work done by the Director Generals’ Committee for Youth. It offers step-by-step guidance that is consistent with and complementary to the approach used for GBA Plus, deepening analysis of age considerations, with a focus on youth; and also complements the Child Rights Impact Assessment in terms of the possible impacts of policies on older children. In 2024-25, the Youth Secretariat will continue to support the Department’s programs and policy efforts as well as the broader government’s (through the Director Generals’ Committee for Youth) by sharing resources from its Youth Engagement Toolkit, including the Youth Impact Analysis tool.

The Official Languages Branch will continue to update annually its generic GBA Plus document, which serves as the basis for any specific policy or program development exercise related to official languages. The generic GBA Plus document presents the analysis of differentiated data on various topics related to official languages (for example, demographics or socio-economic performance of official language minority communities, or school enrolment). In 2024-25, the branch will also be working on a second document, which will take a more in-depth look at the key variables and highlights identified in the generic GBA Plus document and provide a precise overview of the most striking intersections between official languages and other themes.

Led by the Policy Research Group in Planning, Evaluation and Research Branch, PCH will implement the Canadian Heritage Data Strategy in alignment with the 2023–2026 Data Strategy for the Federal Public Service. This work will advance data and research approaches that are consistent with inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility lenses.

2. Awareness, resources, and training

Resulting from its participation in the 2022-23 Departmental Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Review, the Museums Assistance Program in the Heritage Policy and Programs Branch has started to implement an Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) Action Plan in 2023-24 and this work will continue into 2024-25. In addition, the Museums Assistance Program Repatriation Working Group, created in 2021, will continue to bring together staff to work together on repatriation efforts in the program and beyond. It created an Indigenous Heritage Learning Series, as a means for program staff to expand their knowledge on Indigenous heritage, reconciliation, and repatriation. The learning series was opened to other PCH staff and will continue into 2024-25.

The Canadian Conservation Institute and Canadian Heritage Information Network’s internal working group on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility will create an organizational strategy and action plan to eliminate bias and barriers to equity for equity-deserving groups in its workplace and programs. As part of these efforts, employees will be required to undergo basic training on inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility concepts, participate in an engagement session and share their findings with their colleagues. A work objective outlining expectations for employee participation in the session and indicators that demonstrate how the objective will be met will be included in employees’ performance management agreements, and the required training will be included in their learning plans.

All Sport Canada employees will be required, as in previous years, to complete the updated GBA Plus training offered by the Canada School of Public Service.

The Evaluation Services Directorate in Planning, Evaluation and Research Branch will continue to consider GBA Plus in the planning of all PCH evaluations. It has made progress in further improving its ability to integrate questions related to GBA Plus, inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility, reconciliation, as well as sustainable development. The directorate is now using an internal tool for evaluators to better integrate questions and indicators to assess the progress of programs in meeting those priorities.

The Human Resources and Workplace Management Branch will continue its commitment to ensure that all genders are considered in the development of tools, surveys, programs, or policies, and in consultations with the Department’s workforce. More concretely, the branch will continue to implement the Employment and Environment pillars, as well as remove barriers identified during the review of employment systems related to recruitment, retention, promotion, career development, etc. The planned actions will contribute to the achievement of Deputy Ministers’ commitments to diversity and inclusion, as well as to the elimination of inequities between various groups, including members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

The Reconciliation, Treaties and Engagement Branch will leverage thought leadership from Indigenous organizations to develop an internal resource to facilitate distinctions-based, trauma-informed and culturally relevant GBA Plus assessment by PCH. This resource will be grounded in evidence, leveraging Indigenous voices and lived experience and the wealth of thought leadership in this area from Indigenous organizations. The department will seek diverse Indigenous perspectives on how best to give effect to GBA Plus priorities through engagement with community. Target completion date and launch of the resource by the Reconciliation, Treaties and Engagement Branch is forecast for May 2024 which will coincide with the 12th annual Gender-based Analysis Plus (GBA Plus) Awareness Week.

Section 2: Highlights of GBA Plus Results Reporting Capacity by Program

Core Responsibility 1: Creativity, arts and culture

Arts

The Arts Program funds organizations rather than individuals, posing challenges to collecting individual-level disaggregated data. Examples of actions being taken in 2024-25 to improve data collection to enable future monitoring or reporting of the program’s impacts by GBA Plus identity factors and their intersections include:

• analysis of Census data to better understand the makeup of the arts workforce including intersectional factors;
• undertaking intersectional analysis of the Arts and Heritage Access and Availability Survey data to better understand patterns of Canadians’ arts attendance; and
• analysis of information collected related to organizations funded through Canada Arts Training Fund Program that have a mandate to serve Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit and Métis), Black communities, Racialized communities, Deaf and disability communities, Official Language Minority Communities, 2SLGBTQI+ communities, and Youth.

Cultural Marketplace Framework

The Cultural Marketplace Framework Program contains multiple components. While components don’t currently collect sufficient data to enable monitoring and/or reporting on program impacts by GBA Plus identity factors and their intersections, each has strategies in place to improve data collection. Examples for 2024-25 include:

• The Digital Citizen Initiative will expand its program logic model to three new indicators which will rely on data sources that can be disaggregated by age group, race, sexual orientation, disability and whether respondents are newcomers to Canada. Overall, there continues to be a gap in current information about how disinformation and online harm affect different groups in Canada. To address that gap, the program will continue to undertake research to gain a greater understanding of who is most likely to disseminate disinformation and online hate, who is most likely to be impacted by it, and the most effective ways to tailor responses to said groups;
• The Copyright Policy team will continue to engage equity-deserving communities in its policy development and research on copyright issues, such as artists’ resale rights and educational copying. Resulting work will be cognizant of how diverse groups (e.g., Indigenous communities, 2SLGBTQI+ communities, French language creators and racialized and ethno-cultural communities) experience copyright policies; and
• Re-tabled broadcasting legislation and recent policy directions included provisions to allow information sharing between the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the Minister of Canadian Heritage. Therefore, upon request, the Department will be able to access the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s data to inform decision-making.

Cultural Industries Support and Development

The Cultural Industries Support and Development Program contains multiple components. Some components collect sufficient data to enable monitoring and/or reporting on program impacts by gender and diversity, while others have strategies in place to improve data collection. Examples for 2024-25 include:

• The Canada Book Fund does not collect data on recipients in terms of gender, but collects data on sales of books by authors from official language, Indigenous and racialized communities;
• The Canada Music Fund, along with its two third-party administrators, will continue to work towards a more robust data collection approach that will allow for more efficient reporting of program impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors. In time, this data will provide the opportunity for further analysis and potential recommendations for future program development.
• The Canada Periodical Fund collects disaggregated administrative data of applicants using variables such as type of periodical (e.g., newspaper or magazine), equity-deserving community served (e.g., ethnocultural, official-language minority, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQI+), geography (e.g., province or territory), and language (e.g., English, French, or other). To seek further disaggregated data, the program will leverage a multitude of data sources and triangulate any qualitative/quantitative information stemming from these sources.
  In addition, the program is currently working with Statistics Canada to explore the possibility of adapting some products to meet its periodical programs’ needs, in particular, regarding diversity in the newspaper and news media environment and on news consumption and frequency among certain segments of the population, such as Indigenous peoples or visible minorities in Canada;
• The Creative Export Strategy collects data on the following six priority groups via a voluntary self-ID questionnaire shared with applicants to its programs and services Indigenous peoples, racialized communities, 2SLGBTQI+, persons with disabilities, women, and official language minority communities. The data allows Canadian Heritage to understand who is accessing the Creative Export Strategy’s programs and services to enable it to understand and address systemic gaps and barriers to access. The self-identification questionnaire is also used to inform the selection of participants for Department-led creative industries trade missions and events, and to triage eligible applicants to reserved Creative Export Canada funding for priority groups;
• The Audiovisual branch will continue to work with its partners, including Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board of Canada, to prioritize data collection on various communities including, Indigenous Peoples, Black and racialized communities, 2SLGBTQI+ communities, official language minority communities, women, and people with disabilities to better respond to their needs; and
• The Canada Media Fund, a fund redistribution program, is responsible for data collection and reports on its results annually to the Department. As such, PCH has access to aggregate data on gender balance but not detailed breakdowns below this aggregate level. As part of its Equity and Inclusion Strategy, the Canada Media Fund conducted initial data collection using its new Persona-ID tool on members of underrepresented communities applying to its programs. The use of the Persona-ID tool will support evidence-based decision-making and tracking progress on the communities’ participation and in securing funding. In 2024-25, the Canada Media Fund will continue its work to establish a baseline by collecting disaggregated diversity and inclusion data on funded companies and projects. It will also work with partners to set standards of privacy, language and best practices in diversity and inclusion data collection and usage across the industry.

Core Responsibility 2: Heritage and Celebrations

National celebrations, commemorations and symbols

The Celebration and Commemoration Program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors. The program largely distributes small grants to community organizations, not individuals or larger arts and cultural institutions, where tracking may be more institutionalized and where the reporting capacity is higher. While funding recipients are required to report on the number of participants reached by a project or initiative, they are not obliged to track the intersectional GBA Plus identity factors of participants and the final activity reports do not generally capture disaggregated data. In addition, as part of a larger government initiative to enhance the accessibility of funding programs, Celebrate Canada implemented a Fast Track system for grants under $5,000 (representing approximately 75% of all approved projects), which requires less information from clients and simplifies the application process. GBA Plus related data collection for organized events such as Canada Day and Winterlude is limited and done through occasional public opinion research.

Community engagement and heritage

The Building Communities through Arts and Heritage Program does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by GBA Plus identity factors. The Program is improving data collection by updating its performance measurement strategy to include indicators that can be disaggregated to help measure the impact of program funding on various demographic groups throughout Canada, including equity-deserving groups such as Indigenous and 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

In the years since supplemental funding was first announced in Budget 2019 to support Building Communities through Arts and Heritage Local Festivals, that investment continues to facilitate increased access for equity deserving groups. Building Communities through Arts and Heritage engaged in outreach and adjusted its eligibility criteria to increase access for 2SLGBTQI+ and Indigenous communities. In 2024-25, the Program will continue to track applications and funding levels for 2SLGBTQI+ and Indigenous recipient organizations to ensure wide program reach. The Program will continue to measure support levels to 2SLGBTQI+ Pride festivals through its revised performance measurement strategy.

Preservation of and access to heritage

The Preservation of and access to heritage Program contains multiple components that collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors. Examples for 2024-25 include:

• Gender and diversity data of participating youth is collected for Young Canada Works-Heritage Program. As part of the evaluation questionnaire at the end of their employment, participants are asked to self-identify by gender and/or as one or many of the following: Indigenous person, racialized person, person with a disability, a member of an official language minority community.
• The Museum Assistance Program collects information about where communities’ projects are originating from or in which they are actively engaged in. Project recipients are asked to provide information about one or many of the following: Indigenous, ethnocultural and/or racialized, official language minority, 2SLGBTQI+, youth, people with disabilities or other underserved communities.
• The Canadian Conservation Institute) and the Canadian Heritage Information Network collect diversity data on individuals who participate in learning opportunities provided. Participants are asked whether they self-identify as one or many of the following: Indigenous person, a racialized person, a member of an ethno-cultural group or a member of an official language minority community.

Learning about Canadian History

• The Canada History Fund does not collect sufficient data to enable it to monitor and/or report program impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors. It currently collects client-reported summary data regarding the total number of individuals in Canada accessing learning materials, primarily through access to online digital resources. Recipients provide high-level Web analytics, which are not disaggregated. While it is not anticipated that disaggregated data from client organizations will be collected in 2024-25, the program plans to undergo an evaluation in 2025-26, which will take into consideration program performance data, including those that relate to GBA Plus intersectional identity factors.

Core Responsibility 3: Sport

Sport development and high performance

With respect to privacy, Sport Canada’s program data is limited to demographic factors relevant only to reporting and delivery of programs.

The Hosting Program and the Athlete Assistance Program collect data to monitor and report program impacts by sex. Sports are traditionally divided by biological sex, not gender, and participation in events tends to align with sex. Data on other identity factors are also collected through events geared towards specific demographics, such as the North American Indigenous Games or the Paralympics.

Various components of the Sport Support Program collect sufficient data to monitor and report on program impacts by GBA Plus identity factors:

• The National Sport Organization component collects data on the self-described gender identity of athlete competitors, coaches, officials, other club/league recreational participants, board of directors, paid staff, staff leadership, and technical experts. Responses are optional but are intended to help improve Sport Canada’s understanding and commitment to strengthening equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Other components target specific underrepresented groups and collect relevant data to demonstrate program impact; for example, the Sport for Social Development in Indigenous Communities component targets Indigenous communities.

Initiatives in 2024-25 to expand the program’s capacity to report on impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors include:

• Investing $7 million as announced in June 2023 to the Sport Support in support of gender equity and equity, diversity and inclusion in sport. Reporting will be disaggregated based on gender, ability, race and indigeneity, to the extent possible.
• Expanding the disaggregation of Sport Canada’s general population survey data where demographic factors are generalized and anonymized. Targeted surveys and research include surveys on sport and physical activity participation, surveys on safety, ethics and equity in sport, research on female athletes, racism in sport and all other data collection projects relevant to sport; and
• Investigating the impact of intersecting identity factors on the motivation and outcomes related to participation in sport through research partnerships with the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute and Statistics Canada, Canada’s gold-standard institutes.

Core Responsibility 4: Diversity and Inclusion

Multiculturalism and anti-racism

The Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program does not yet collect sufficient data to be able to report on direct Program impacts related to GBA Plus. However, initiatives are underway to improve the identification and collection of performance measurement data. This is being done, in part, by adding new data collection fields in reporting completed by funding recipients. In addition, activities and funding touch on issues that affect various groups differently across Canada in consideration of GBA Plus, which is a factor in research projects and for grants and contributions project funding.

Through Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy, a $3 million investment was made in an oversampling of Statistics Canada’s 2020 General Social Survey – Social Identity. The oversampling has obtained intersectional data such as gender, education and income level on various ethnocultural population groups. The intention through a renewed Strategy in 2024-25 will be to further support evidence-based and disaggregated data-driven decision-making through the development of Statistics Canada’s Anti-Racism and Hate Results Framework and new Intersectional Data Strategy for Mobilizing Knowledge to Combat Racism and Hate. Additionally, an update to existing Social Inclusion Framework statistics (using data from the 2021 Census) will be developed, as well as exploring the inclusion of new indicators and new population groups.

Human rights

The Human Rights Program and the Court Challenges Program collect sufficient data to enable them to monitor and/or report program impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors. Impacts of the Human Rights Program are monitored through program evaluations. Additionally, the program obtains data from the General Social Survey, which is conducted every 5 years. Impacts of the Court Challenges Program are monitored through program evaluations, and through data collection including survey held by the program administrator. The program’s first evaluation since its reinstatement in 2018, began in the fall of 2022 and the results are expected in January 2024. This evaluation will provide important information on the program’s impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors. Since the program is managed by a third party, and given the nature of the program, precise information on the cases funded remains limited, which has an impact on the depth of the GBA Plus analyses that could be carried out.

Indigenous languages

The Indigenous Languages Program collects information on distinction (First Nation, Inuit and Métis) and place of residence (province or territory) in order to consider those factors when allocating its funding. The program continues to review Census 2021 data from Statistics Canada to understand characteristics of the Indigenous population in Canada, whether they can speak an Indigenous language or are non-speakers. Variables of language, place or residence–province/territory, remote/rural/urban, on and off-reserve, gender, age, distinction are used. The program also continues to work jointly with Indigenous partners to renew its results framework, to determine how best to collect information about the differential impacts of the program on segments of the Indigenous population, and to determine what, if any, specific targets should be set for diverse groups.

Youth engagement

The Exchanges Canada and the Youth Take Charge Programs collect sufficient data to enable them to monitor and/or report programs’ impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors. A GBA Plus was completed for the Exchanges Canada Program in 2023-24. Mitigation strategies for gaps identified are expected to be implemented in 2024-25 and 2025-26.

The Federal Youth Secretariat is developing a youth-centred engagement approach for the development of the second State of Youth Report supporting the participation of youth who self-identify with diverse identities, experiences, and backgrounds, including but not limited to Indigeneity, race, culture and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion, citizenship and newcomer status, ability, geographic location, economic profiles and circumstances, and language profiles. The Secretariat is hoping to collect data through voluntary surveys, by youth organizations who hold in-person and virtual engagement sessions, and by an online engagement tool housed within the Department. The Secretariat continues to work with departmental research groups, Statistics Canada and other federal organizations, and youth-serving organizations to determine which indicators and data should be included in the second report.

Core Responsibility 5: Official Languages

The Development of Official-Language Communities and the Enhancement of Official Languages Programs collect sufficient data to enable them to monitor and report program impacts by GBA Plus intersecting identity factors. Analysis of differentiated data on various topics related to official languages (for example, demographics or socio-economic performance of official language minority communities, or school enrolment) is available in the generic GBA Plus document that the Official Languages Branch updates annually. The branch will continue to use GBA Plus to ensure that policies and programs are implemented in an inclusive manner, considering gender, race, ethnicity, religion, age, mental or physical disability and a host of other factors. In addition, the capacity of community organizations will be strengthened, and innovative projects or those linked to government priorities will be more fully supported under the GBA Plus and capacity-building categories for smaller or regional organizations.