Status of Women committee  That's great. In 2006, the department commissioned the Johnston report to look at shelter funding methodology on reserve. It was to bring on-reserve shelters up to par with other shelters in Canada. Unfortunately, according to a report commissioned by the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters, it determined that the six on-reserve shelters in Alberta were underfunded by approximately $2.2 million in 2010-11.

Status of Women committee  As you know, the reason we have withheld support for this bill is that native women across the country are feeling that it will not solve the problem on its own. We actually need to see the full suite of initiatives in order to give support. Minister, you used the words "not afforded the same rights”, but what we're hearing from native women across Canada is that they can't afford to access the rights that would be present in this legislation.

Status of Women committee  When will that be?

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much. In 2006 Minister Prentice, I think appreciating the complexity of this issue, appointed Wendy Grant-John to do the study. In her report she proposed that there would need to be stand-alone federal legislation, but in her final report she actually said: The viability and effectiveness of any legislative framework will also depend on necessary financial resources being made available for implementation of non-legislative measures....

Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Can you just tell us offhand which seemed to be the departments with a lower response rate?

Status of Women committee  You should be proud about that.

Status of Women committee  In previous surveys of the public service, people with disabilities, people whose first language is not the culture of that particular department, there have been many things identified as specific to certain departments. Are you able to help departments in knowing which people feel particularly uncomfortable or feel that they are not in a respectful workplace?

Status of Women committee  That was the only harassment that happened in your department, to fill out the frigging survey. In more modern workplace lingo, people are avoiding the words “harassment” and “discrimination” because people find it quite a serious accusation. I think people such as Nora Spinks, and the Vanier Institute of the Family, are much more comfortable asking people to describe a respectful workplace, or whether they think their workplace is respectful, or is, as you've said in your other questions, moving to try to remedy these things in terms of “respectful” or “non-respectful”.

Status of Women committee  You would have to do both. I guess there are interesting articles now, and poems and everything, around bullying in the workplace. Is there any data on whether if you use the word “bullying” you might get different numbers than if you use the word “harassment”?

Status of Women committee  Were you able to find out whether it seemed to be about sex or race or religion in terms of the discrimination? Do you know whether it seemed to be gender-specific or religious or race-specific, in terms of discrimination?

Status of Women committee  Thank you. Just to be clear, the military personnel from the Canadian Forces were included?

Status of Women committee  Of the 28% who didn't respond, were they evenly divided across all departments or were there certain departments that were less likely to respond?

Status of Women committee  Could you provide this committee with the disaggregated data for which departments? It could be that some responded at 99% and some at 50%. I think that would be of great interest to this committee.

Status of Women committee  What about the non-civilian personnel within the RCMP?