Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I wanted to go back to something you said, MP Damoff, with respect to already having a system in place with respect to the code of conduct for members, dealing with sexual harassment. In that code of conduct, there's a mechanism. It is not political parties that are involved. This is literally professionals with the human resources office who deal with complaints and mediation, and so on and so forth. Therefore, we know a model already exists. As it was indicated in appendix A of the workplace harassment policy, which unfortunately doesn't apply between MPs, it gives examples of behaviours that can be considered harassment.
Would you say that it would be pretty easy for us to implement not only the harassment policy between MPs because we already have a model in which complaints can be brought forward, but also an example of lists of behaviours that would not be acceptable? I also think it would be helpful—and I'd like your opinion on this—to have mediation or reconciliation.
For instance, if there is a member who is being targeted online by another member, then that indirectly gets the harassment going. If there was a mechanism where you could invite that member of Parliament to a meeting with a professional, with a mediation officer, to say that you're not sure if they realize that what they're doing is causing a lot of hurt, and it's creating this mass of hate and so on.
There is no mechanism, and we have a very adversarial job that we already do. Would you recommend that maybe we have systems in place so that we can actually bring our colleagues together to say that this behaviour is not acceptable, and they need to help and to stop it? What would you recommend? I'm trying to talk about not the indirect hate, but how can we prevent getting there?