We know from our exit interviews that MPs are collegial. You are friends, you do have lunch and you do have group chats together. The public would like to see a lot more of that side of the job.
These types of pledges, Ms. Damoff, are certainly helpful, but I don't think we need to see a kind of flattening or segmenting of the experience across race or gender lines all the time. That can be useful to help us set a baseline for improvements or to get some necessary context, but I think we want to see, and the public wants to see, all MPs demonstrating collegiality and civility towards each other.
It's not just the burden of those who are experiencing the most violence to stick up for each other and protect each other. There's a role for everyone to play to demonstrate the kind of productive and collegial workspace that we know can exist, that does exist a lot of the time and that needs to be more visible to the public.