Evidence of meeting #46 for Status of Women in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was departments.

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MPs speaking

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Ross MacLeod  Assistant Deputy Minister, Governance Planning and Policy Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat
Martine Glandon  Manager, Values and Ethics, Treasury Board Secretariat

9:40 a.m.

Conservative

Joyce Bateman Conservative Winnipeg South Centre, MB

Is it possible to have—

9:40 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Marie-Claude Morin

Unfortunately not.

9:40 a.m.

Conservative

Joyce Bateman Conservative Winnipeg South Centre, MB

I'm just thinking in terms of a written response....

9:40 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Marie-Claude Morin

Is it possible to send the committee a reply in writing?

9:40 a.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Governance Planning and Policy Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat

Ross MacLeod

Yes. There is a lot of content in the MAF, the Management Accountability Framework. It is perfectly possible to provide that to the committee.

9:40 a.m.

Conservative

Joyce Bateman Conservative Winnipeg South Centre, MB

For the purposes of our discussions here, values and ethics are key to our study on the prevention of harassment.

9:40 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Marie-Claude Morin

Are you okay with that, Mr. MacLeod?

9:40 a.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Governance Planning and Policy Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat

Ross MacLeod

Perfectly.

9:40 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Marie-Claude Morin

Great. Thank you.

9:40 a.m.

Conservative

Joyce Bateman Conservative Winnipeg South Centre, MB

Thank you, Madam Chair.

9:40 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Marie-Claude Morin

We only have one minute left.

Ms. O'Neill Gordon, you have the floor for one minute.

9:40 a.m.

Conservative

Tilly O'Neill-Gordon Conservative Miramichi, NB

I have a question that I was wondering about. One of my colleagues may have asked it, but I don't think so. I was wondering about how often harassment is perpetrated by a co-worker, not by the superior, not by the manager.

9:40 a.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Governance Planning and Policy Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat

Ross MacLeod

We have results from the public service employee survey on that. Would it be helpful if we just supplied those results to you? They are well known, and we could give you a fairly accurate picture of it.

9:40 a.m.

Conservative

Tilly O'Neill-Gordon Conservative Miramichi, NB

Yes.

9:40 a.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Governance Planning and Policy Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat

Ross MacLeod

I think that would do more than what my commentary—

9:40 a.m.

Conservative

Tilly O'Neill-Gordon Conservative Miramichi, NB

That comment was made here earlier, and I was just wondering. From having worked in the workplace, most times I would say any kind of comments or something like that would come more from a co-worker than a manager.

9:45 a.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Governance Planning and Policy Sector, Treasury Board Secretariat

Ross MacLeod

We were a bit surprised by the survey, how much of it came from where. I can just leave you that point, but we'd be happy to provide the data to the committee.

9:45 a.m.

Conservative

Tilly O'Neill-Gordon Conservative Miramichi, NB

Yes, okay. Thank you.

9:45 a.m.

NDP

The Chair NDP Marie-Claude Morin

And with that, we conclude this meeting with the Treasury Board Secretariat.

Thank you very much for agreeing to come back before the committee.

I will suspend the session for one minute, so that we can move in camera to discuss committee business.

[Proceedings continue in camera]