Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you very much, Dr. Collinsworth, for being here with us today and helping us with this important study.
The issue of the RCMP is the one I am most concerned about, and the kind of sexual abuse and harassment and so on that has gone on. I realize you may not be that familiar with it, but the government of the day has introduced a bill that would give the commissioner more power to suspend people and so on, rather than this code of conduct. Some people are concerned that putting more power in the hands of the top-notch commissioners is not the answer, because clearly some of the rank and file today are being told that with the new legislation, they'd better just do as they're told, otherwise they could be fired instantly, if the commissioners wanted to do that.
Some people are saying it's just another form of intimidation to be used within the service. Certainly from our perspective, we question whether that's the way you deal with changing the culture of an organization.
Given the fact that this is very much a male-dominated organization, and women are coming into a field where they're clearly not wanted by many—and maybe this is the older generation, and maybe they all need to leave and bring in the younger ones who will have more respect for women—why do they seem to feel so threatened by having females in a male-dominated profession like the RCMP?