I'm a bit surprised that our government colleagues voted down our amendment that proposed that we provide training on harassment. This amendment was put forward, but there was no debate. We immediately went to the vote and the amendment was not adopted. However, all of the witnesses we heard were in favour of the idea of providing training to employees to raise awareness about harassment.
I'm surprised that the government is not in support of training to prevent harassment in the workplace. I would have expected that when the amendment was tabled, we would have heard the argument from the government not to support this amendment, instead of, I would say bluntly, opposing and moving on to the next one.
We heard that training is critical to prevent harassment, and I'm disappointed to see that we had the opportunity to discuss those issues previously and that this is just not considered or even discussed.