It is not that job cuts cause sexual harassment. The question was why don't people come forward about sexual harassment.
What I was trying to convey is that women are afraid to come forward and say they have been sexually harassed because of what's going on within their workplaces. Will they be believed it has taken place? Will the complaint perhaps impede their career? When we're talking about the job cuts and the real fear out there, I think it's probably quadrupled. If there was sexual harassment, women would not be coming forward. I said I was at a meeting and a young woman who was three months pregnant was saying she was afraid to say she was pregnant for fear of losing her job. The woman sitting beside her may be sexually harassed but she's not going to put up her hand and say she's being sexually harassed and could she still please have her job.
I think that you have to look at the climate within our workplaces right now, where the job cuts are taking place, where the process that's in place is very unfair, which I have spoken to Mr. Clement about. Because we don't have seniority within our workplaces, individuals are forced to compete against their colleagues. As Mr. Kingston said, it's not the work that's leaving, it's people who are leaving and the work is still there.
My reference was that in today's climate with all the looming job cuts, if there is—and there is—sexual harassment in the workplace, those women would not stand up and say so and file a complaint that they've been sexually harassed.