Status of Women committee  The Women in Canada publication?

Status of Women committee  That's not under my responsibility. It's StatsCan’s. So I'm not prepared to comment on that.

Status of Women committee  My interpretation is that it's probably a little bit of both. They are engaged. We had a strong communications program to make sure that all employees were aware that this questionnaire was in their inbox, so there was a lot of work from the deputy minister level down, in all the organizations, to make sure that employees responded, and as completely as possible.

Status of Women committee  There is a separate question that I didn't present here. I didn't actually prepare any data. I can provide it to the committee later, but in one of the other sections of the survey, we asked whether employees feel that they can comment without fear of reprisal. Let me give you the exact wording, because the wording is important: “I feel I can initiate a formal recourse process (grievance, complaint, appeal, etc.) without fear of reprisal.”

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. Thank you to the committee for having me here today. My name is Geoff Bowlby. I'm the director of special surveys at Statistics Canada. I was the director responsible for the public service employee survey, and that's what we'll be talking about today. The focus of my opening comments will be on the nature of the survey itself.