Thank you very much, Mr. Chair
I actually haven't seen the chart yet, but I will take a look at it in due course.
I'll just quickly summarize, and I'd like to hear from the commissioner. I think we've been sort of nibbling around what the central concern is at this moment, which is, going forward, the plan on harassment. That's what I want to come to. Just to summarize how I'm working through this using a methodology that hopefully makes sense, we have a Supreme Court of Canada case that says that the RCMP is entitled to collectively pursue workplace goals.
Bill C-7 is the response to that Supreme Court of Canada decision. I think there should be some consensus in this room that achieving a harassment-free and discrimination-free workplace is a workplace goal. We have some examples of other police associations that do bargain regarding this issue. I don't think there's any dispute about that. This is not unprecedented. We also know that the RCMP has a suite of tools at its disposal to address harassment and that some progress has been made.
What I think we're debating right now is the net benefit to the RCMP of leaving harassment off of the bargaining table as you continue to use the existing tools.