Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Paula, for being here today. It's nice to finally have your report with us. It's a very important study that we're doing.
Your 2012 article entitled, “Encourage. Support. Act! Bystander Approaches to Sexual Harassment in the Workplace”, highlights the importance of the intervention of bystanders in the response to incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace. Two of the reasons you highlighted as a reason people do not report incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace are fear of reprisal or the expectation that the response, once the incident is reported, may be inadequate.
You also note this has to do with the difficulty of recognizing the harassing behaviour as harassers do make efforts to keep their behaviour from being recognized, making it difficult for bystanders to identify the act and support the victim's claim. What sorts of training solutions would you propose to prevent harassment in the first place? What sorts of training solutions would you propose to empower and encourage bystanders to speak out?