Status of Women committee  It's a combination. It needs to be multi-faceted. People learn differently, and we do have challenges with regard to geography and numbers, so we would see value in both.

Status of Women committee  I will answer that question, if that's all right with you. All of our training is done in person in terms of the respectful workplace action plan in “E” Division. There are online training options that are national, such as harassment awareness training online, and the development of new training around respectful workplaces is under way, as I understand it.

Status of Women committee  In our mentorship program within the action plan, we have two groups. One is our respectful workplace advisory committee. That is a group of officers or officer equivalents who have come together from all of the different business lines across the province. We're starting to do some formal training with that group in person.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, sir. I think a good example was when we hosted the three-day promoting cultural change and gender diversity workshop where we had both men and women on the course. That issue was explored in some detail in terms of how men and women, right from the stages of being very young up into adulthood, may communicate a little bit differently.

Status of Women committee  Yes, certainly. Thank you for the question. The electronic confidential reporting form comes directly to the respectful workplace team. It comes to me, and there are two other staff members—

Status of Women committee  In the event that an employee were to express a concern via the confidential electronic reporting form, I would review that. I would be able to take that forward to the commanding officer. In your example, if it were in regard to the commanding officer, I would be able to take that forward outside that chain of command, if that were the case.

Status of Women committee  Yes. As we launch this, it will be a new system and, I suppose, a pilot to see how much access there is and how much our employees are using it. Yes, those will come directly to the respectful workplace team, which consists of me and two other employees.

Status of Women committee  One of the things we heard from our employees, from the various sources of information, was that reporting could be a challenge to them. There was a perception by some employees, a perception or a reality, that coming forward was difficult. They did fear that in their immediate work environment or their immediate chain of command perhaps it wouldn't be dealt with appropriately, or that there might be some reprisal against them in the immediate environment.

Status of Women committee  We have had our respectful workplace advisers in place since November. The electronic reporting system will go live April 1.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, sir. Thank you for the question. It was a three-day training workshop that included a Ph.D. who specializes in gender communications. We had a number of male and female employees attend. It went very well. There was a lot of great open dialogue and a lot of sharing and learning from each other.

Status of Women committee  It was the first opportunity we had to run the workshop. It was voluntary in the sense that we put out a call for people who were interested. Senior managers, for the most part, were the people who attended. We did have representatives of every business line within the province and all of the different programs.