Status of Women committee  No. As you'll recall from our last presentation, we did not have that in the last survey. The question was about how we actually monitor departments, so that's one of our main tools for monitoring them. As I mentioned in the last presentation as well, we will be having a look a

Status of Women committee  In doing a survey of that size, you're always facing a tension between how much you're looking for—how many questions you can ask—and your response rate, so we're always trying to balance the number of questions. The news that led to the study of this committee wasn't that promi

Status of Women committee  I'll just mention that Treasury Board's role with respect to its policies is monitoring, not oversight, but we do have those tools in place to actually do that. We have a continual conversation with the leads in departments who are in charge of making sure that the policy is imp

Status of Women committee  At the Treasury Board Secretariat. We meet with them on a regular basis to ensure—and there's a series of communications that happens as well. When the harassment policy was approved by Treasury Board, our communications went from deputies to heads of HR to the lead practitioner

Status of Women committee  The deputy head responsibilities in the Financial Administration Act give them the responsibility for that, so it's really a legal matter. We monitor all of our policies, and we find, generally speaking, that the monitoring activities are fairly effective at bringing issues as

Status of Women committee  We have a number of means of monitoring departmental performance. The main one we use is called the management accountability framework, which actually uses things like the public service employee survey, for example, to rate departmental performance in areas such as harassment a

Status of Women committee  I'll ask my colleague Martine Glandon to walk us through the five steps.

Status of Women committee  We encourage speedy resolution. Sometimes the issues are very complex around harassment, and for due process they need time to be resolved. A speedy resolution on some of these things is informal conflict resolution, whereby it can be dealt with quickly in the event that it's b

Status of Women committee  All managers in the core public administration are covered by this policy.

Status of Women committee  Deputy ministers are, yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  We are undertaking a large review of the Treasury Board policy suite. It's been under way for about five years now. The idea is to modernize the policies and ensure they are in keeping with deputy head responsibilities. In 2009 the government decided to rework the responsibilit

Status of Women committee  We consulted widely on this and had a multi-month consultative process regarding the agents. We consulted the federal government heads of HR, the Human Rights Commission, and so on.

Status of Women committee  That's absolutely correct, and culture change is at the core of this approach. It is pushing culture change down to the level of every single employee. It can come from anywhere, even from clients. You have dual responsibilities in this. There is the responsibility of the deput

Status of Women committee  It is a requirement of the policy that deputy heads maintain a healthy workplace, and frequently it is the case that you remove an individual from danger.