Thank you, Madam Chair.
I have a number of questions, but since I have been a member of your committee for a long time, I would like to share a part of my time with our colleague Ms. Crockatt, who, as you know, has recently joined our team.
By the way, thank you both so very much for coming and speaking with us. This is so very helpful. Both of the presentations, Ms. Turtle and Mr. Sharma, are very helpful and very much appreciated.
I want to speak, first of all, to the fact that I very much appreciated Mr. Sharma's commentary on women but we are here—and I know all of my colleagues feel very strongly about this—to ensure there is no harassment in the workplace, and this does not preclude men. In fact, we are equally seized with the reality that we don't want a man to be subjected to any kind of harassment in the workplace. That has happened in the past.
We're equal opportunity here; we're both sides of the coin. It's so easy to exclude men from even the concept of sexual harassment. I am personally aware of a situation where that is exactly what happened, so we have to be equally vigilant for all genders.
I'm very gratified to hear the inclusion work that you're doing. Certainly, the Conservative government has done a lot of inclusion work ensuring that women have been able to be participants in non-traditional employment opportunities, so it's very gratifying to hear.
Ms. Turtle, could you speak to the fact that your policies are available to both men and women? I'm sure they are, but could you just confirm that?