Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Welcome to all of our witnesses.
To LEAF in particular, it's great to see you again. I have long been a big supporter of the work that you've done in my many years in political office. I have heard from you on different things.
I had been very focused with regard to concerns about the RCMP and the sexual harassment and intimidation that unfortunately are clearly smearing the reputation of an icon in Canada, an organization that we Canadians all admire and respect. We've been trying to work through some issues so that some changes can ultimately be made and so that people who choose that kind of career—and women in particular—can do so without being intimidated and being labelled troublemakers, and so on and so forth.
They have all the policies that you could ask for on paper, as does much of the federal service, but the actual carrying out of many of these complaints to the right bodies does not seem to be happening. It doesn't happen because they don't want to be labelled or transferred out. As for going to the Human Rights Tribunal, that just seems to me to be the wrong place to deal with these kinds of issues, especially in the federal workplace.
Now, in your brief, you talk about a third-party complaint process, which is something that I'm quite interested in. Could you elaborate a bit on how you think that might function in a positive way? What kinds of negative things would come out of this? I can only see positives, but I'm sure there must be some other issues. Can you elaborate a bit on that?