Status of Women committee  There are a number of factors, including complication, number of witnesses, complexity of the issues, even novelty—are these new legal issues that need to be considered? Are we talking about hundreds of thousands of pages of documents? Is this significant to national importance, for example?

Status of Women committee  I think those two examples you give would be considered unwelcome. It's anything that makes the individual who's the recipient of the action, the discussion, the talk, feel unwelcome.

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Good morning. Thank you, Madam Chair and honourable members, for the invitation to appear before your committee today as you begin your very important study of sexual harassment in federally regulated workplaces. I am joined by two colleagues from my office: Rachel Boyer, executive director and registrar at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and Greg Miller, legal counsel.