Status of Women committee  We do. I don't have those numbers here, but we do have many women who have ethnic backgrounds.

Status of Women committee  I have it here: we have 811 corporals.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Well, we do have a harassment coordinator, as well, to whom a person can go if they don't feel comfortable--

Status of Women committee  If they feel that they can voice their concerns without being harassed?

Status of Women committee  Well, definitely, any tool or any system in place would increase the confidence of women. But I can tell you that it is not an issue at the present time. People do report it.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. I can really relate to what Mary Ann was talking about earlier, because at first people said if we're going to have women, that means we can't do this, this, or this, or there would be an environment in which people would think that because women were around, the worl

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  No. What happened is that we did go into a large recruiting drive with the RCMP. We needed to fill about 1,800 positions per year for about three years. We did complement our workforce with men. We needed to increase the number of members, period. A lot of people were retiring, w

Status of Women committee  We needed to increase our workforce.

Status of Women committee  It went down to 18.3% on average over those years.

Status of Women committee  Typically.... It depends on who is harassing you, obviously.

Status of Women committee  If they report to a corporal, they would report it to their corporal, who has the duty to report.

Status of Women committee  I can look that up and tell you; my brain refuses to remember numbers now.

Status of Women committee  If you ask any member of the RCMP or any police person out there, we are all attracted to the fact that we will be helping the community. If you ask anybody, they will all answer that. Every recruit will say that as well. We want to help our community and be involved in our commu