Status of Women committee  Yes, that's correct.

Status of Women committee  That is outlined in the policy. Different departments will handle that in different ways, depending on their operational environment. There is no shortage of information available to employees, though, in terms of guides and the policy and so on. For instance, when Treasury Boa

Status of Women committee  We were quite disappointed with the results of the survey this year with respect to that aspect. This has been a persistent result in previous public service surveys as well. We are designing the 2014 survey now, and it's certainly a question we'll be looking at. Overall the res

Status of Women committee  The school offers a number of different courses. Martine, can you offer an explanation for this?

Status of Women committee  The question wasn't based on type of harassment. As you are aware, there are several kinds of harassment. It wasn't broken out by that. We had a limited number of questions we were able to ask in the survey and we left it at just one harassment question. However, before they ans

Status of Women committee  We're not totally sure. However, we had another question in the survey about employees feeling free to initiate complaint processes and formal processes, and 40% of our employees said they were reluctant to do so. We think there's a connection between the two. Again, that's som

Status of Women committee  The duty to prevent harassment rests with deputy ministers or deputy heads of departments, so at a departmental level they would determine who actually gets trained, and how.

Status of Women committee  Typically, there is a senior official in a department who is responsible for harassment complaints. They frequently, but not always, have the role of a kind of champion in informing people in their department. Other players, such as the heads of HR, may have that responsibility a

Status of Women committee  I'm going to ask my colleague, Madam Glandon, to comment on that. There is a five-step process that's been outlined in the directive. In the previous policy, complaint resolution took a very long time. One of the things we want to do with the new policy is provide a more timely p

Status of Women committee  It's the deputy minister's responsibility to ensure that those systems are in place. One challenge with a policy like this, a policy that cuts across the whole federal government, is the diversity of organizations that are there. The new policies have allowed for some flexibility

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. We're very pleased to be here today to help the committee with this important study. Harassment in the workplace is unacceptable and will not be tolerated, regardless of its source. We know that it's important for the federal public service to m

Official Languages committee  Yes.

Official Languages committee  We have worked with our colleagues in the Treasury Board in terms of how they provide analysis to the board in the précis they provide to ministers for their consideration. In every submission to the board, there is a section on official languages implications. We have trained an

Official Languages committee  We also provide training for the analysts as well, so they can understand the grid and how it's implemented, to make sure they can provide the appropriate analysis.

Official Languages committee  We use the guide that Marc mentioned, but we also provide sessions to members of the program sector.