Subcommittee on a Code of Conduct for Members committee  I think one of your greatest challenges in the dealings of the subcommittee is that you're dealing with definitions that were meant and designed for a relationship between an employer and its employees. It is difficult. I think you hit it right on the nail that there's an absence

Subcommittee on a Code of Conduct for Members committee  We struggled with that very question when we did the harassment policy for members as employers. The compromise that we came up with is that the complainant can go to the member as an employer, the whip, or the chief human resources officer. It is the choice of the complainant.

Subcommittee on a Code of Conduct for Members committee  It's because the responsibility rests on the employer to provide a workplace that is free of harassment, so if there's employee-to-employee harassment, it's filed with the employer. It's the responsibility of the employer to investigate and then to take any action that the employ

Subcommittee on a Code of Conduct for Members committee  It all depends on the level of authority. Again, we've had these debates in the drafting of the other policy. I think the whips are key to a certain extent, because they're already responsible for the discipline within their party. It does raise the question of what to do when it

Subcommittee on a Code of Conduct for Members committee  Yes. Probably step one would be to define what you are trying to fix. For instance, if you exclude open parliamentary debate and private life to a certain extent, there is a zone in the middle that needs to be defined. Once you know what remains and what you are trying to fix wit

Subcommittee on a Code of Conduct for Members committee  In any organization, when we face situations like this that involve human resources and are complex, it is always good to get advice, since we do not face these situations on a regular basis. So I think it is appropriate to do so. This was included in the other policy regarding

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you, Marc. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think it's important to add that the day care doesn't operate under the management of the House of Commons. It operates by its own board of directors and own management. We've had in the past, I would say, 18 months several discussions o

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Parental leave would probably require—and I don't want to speak on behalf of the Law Clerk—modifications to the Parliament of Canada Act where attendance is regulated by section 57. The attendance regulations include illness as a reason for being absent during a sitting day, but

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would agree with Marc, because the bulk of our staff are full-time permanent employees. We do have a very small portion of our staff who are sessional, who are tied to the actual activities of the House. The same applies to summer. There are some activities that continue in th

Official Languages committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. It is a rare privilege for a member of the administration to be invited to a committee meeting of this kind. Hello. As chief human resources officer for the House of Commons, I am responsible for the language training centre. The centre's mandate is to im

Official Languages committee  Yes, thank you.

Official Languages committee  We don't maintain that information because it's not necessarily a requirement. Basically, there's no requirement to become an MP, as you are aware, so there's no testing. We have that information for our employees because our employees do require linguistic profiles. We don't mai

Official Languages committee  The House of Commons staff is pretty high, I would say it's above 95%. We serve a population that requires services in both languages, so it makes sense for us to provide that service in both official languages.

Official Languages committee  We know that in each Parliament the number of students goes up because there's a renewed interest in our services. I don't know if Nina has more information.