Status of Women committee  Let me answer the first question first. In our view, it is not clear that the amount of harassment changes depending on whether the senior administrator, for example, is a man or a woman. From the results, that is not clear to us. As to the second question, we feel that the proc

Status of Women committee  It's a somewhat technical question. This applies to schedules I and IV of the Financial Administration Act, which is what we would commonly call departments and agencies in the government, or what we frequently call the core public administration, so that would be it. It would n

Status of Women committee  Correct.

Status of Women committee  Yes, if it falls into one of those.... I think those would. We would have to check, but any normal department or agency would fall into that category.

Status of Women committee  Yes, they are all bound by them. They're bound by the law, they're bound by the code, they're bound by the policies, and it's their duty to know what their responsibilities are.

Status of Women committee  Correct.

Status of Women committee  The comment was made in relation to the varying levels of harassment. The only ideal level of harassment is zero. It's fair to say that all organizations in the Government of Canada have work to do to get to that point. The context was that there are varying levels of harassmen

Status of Women committee  I'll work from the last question back, if it's okay. The department heads are required to use the policy. What we've said is to use the tools that are appropriate to your environment. In terms of the question of representation, if you look at the data related to employment equi

Status of Women committee  The legal frameworks for the government are centrally held, typically, so the legislation related to our employees is mostly under the purview of the President of the Treasury Board, as are all the policies that affect them. There is one exception, which is the Public Service Emp

Status of Women committee  For Treasury Board and deputy ministers, a key piece is the Financial Administration Act, which actually sets out many deputy responsibilities relative to their employees. There is the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, which allows for the disclosure of wrongdoing and pr

Status of Women committee  Departments are required to have both available to their employees. They're delivered in different ways in different organizations, but they're all available to all employees.

Status of Women committee  Employees can request it directly.

Status of Women committee  Sometimes it's not in person. It depends on the set-up of the department. If you have a large, regionalized department, you may have to call the person and so on, but it is available to employees.

Status of Women committee  There are really two key sources of data, one of which would be driven out of the actual complaint process itself. As I mentioned in my last presentation, we have asked departments for that in the past, in the MAF in 2009-10. The advantage of using a survey to do so is that peopl

Status of Women committee  Yes.