Status of Women committee  I represent the RCMP, but I can't speak for every single person. I would say that we're definitely headed in the right direction. We have a lot of initiatives going on, all targeted to making the workplace respectful for everybody. It's everybody's right to work in an area like t

Status of Women committee  There is no end date to the benchmark, so there's no timeline for it. It's for the next few years. The intention is to keep going, and pushing, and doing what we can to get there. I can tell you we are definitely headed in the right direction. I'm looking at some statistics from

Status of Women committee  No, I don't have that data.

Status of Women committee  Given that it's a recommendation, I'm not sure there is a limit on it, but I don't know the specifics of that, I'm sorry.

Status of Women committee  It's monitored from the policy centre. That's part of the central oversight. I know that the statistic as of last week was that 94% of all employees had taken that course.

Status of Women committee  For the most part, the procedures.... Our policy has been in existence since 2005, so we already have procedures and policies. We are amending those; they're evolving. Little bits are changed as the policy goes along, but we're looking at a more substantial change presently to ma

Status of Women committee  No, not at this point. It's within the definition of harassment, but there isn't a separate policy for sexual harassment.

Status of Women committee  The proactive portion of recruiting has the ability to focus on certain segments of society, and in this case it depends on where you are located. There are many different initiatives going on to bring up the rate of women applying to the RCMP, things such as women-only exam sess

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's right. They would have recruiting information sessions. That's one of our first stages. They would be targeted for women only, for instance. I'm not sure exactly how the information would differ, but it would be specific to the women in the audience.

Status of Women committee  I will have to address that to my colleague.

Status of Women committee  There are a bunch of different steps related to different aspects of trying to get to the respectful workplace and transparency. Obviously, there are the policies. We are updating all of our policies, and we are working with Treasury Board to do that. We're also building some gui

Status of Women committee  It's probably too early to see impacts, but I do know that the topic itself really seems to come to the forefront. We're very much talking about these things, which is a good thing, I think.

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure on the exact date of the report. I know that we gave full cooperation and opened up all of our files, of course. They were even in our building for a while reading the files, but I'm not sure of the exact date.

Status of Women committee  Good morning, Madam Chair, members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much for this opportunity to come before the committee to contribute to your study of sexual harassment in workplaces in the federal jurisdiction. Here with me today is Superintendent Michael