Speaking for USGE, as you know, all the components have a mandate to represent x departments. My focus and the bulk of my work happens to be with the RCMP, although I represent employees at a number of other departments.
In preparation for this appearance I focused on the very difficult issue of one individual trying to resolve her sexual harassment complaint. That's the case summary of Ms. R. I have copies of a more elaborate summary. If you wish I could leave it with you. And of course there's the case of Donald Ray.
From our perspective what would be important for this committee to take away from the RCMP situation is a crucial realization that all the publicity has been on the plight of female regular members of the RCMP. Because of the nature of the beast, the members that we represent and the fact that we operate under a different act than the RCMP does, our approach has not been public and cannot have been public. I would hazard a guess and say that on a pro rata basis there are probably as many sexual harassment concerns of public servants in the RCMP as there are among regular members of the RCMP.