Status of Women committee  Because of the focus on this issue, you are going to have departments and agencies where, even if in their own minds, their thinking hasn't changed, what they are saying and the overall attitude has to change. If it becomes acceptable for individuals who are observing something

Status of Women committee  LEAF is not proposing a particular model, obviously. We're just identifying the issues that are there. But the positive things that could come out of it would be that the moment you remove that barrier to reporting, which is the “my career is over” barrier.... Many people make a

Status of Women committee  I'll jump in first, and then perhaps Ms. Bouchard would like to comment on this as well. In the summer of 2010 the Ontario government introduced its workplace violence and harassment measures under the Occupational Health and Safety Act. There was a huge response, a huge increas

Status of Women committee  On paper, the system is there. The forms are there. We have all seen them with the boxes we can tick off to self-identify over the whole spectrum. Once again, it's not just having the system in place. There has to be a commitment to doing that, and to making sure that people have

Status of Women committee  I'm just about there, thank you. One additional point that LEAF would like to make is that, while the federal government for many years has had on paper a commitment to hiring and promoting minorities, and trying to create a workplace that reflects society at large, we are still

Status of Women committee  Good morning, Madam Chair, and members of the committee. The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund appreciates the opportunity to appear this morning before this committee. LEAF is a national organization dedicated to promoting substantive equality for women through legal act