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Status of Women committee Sexual harassment, Madam Chair, is not defined in our policy because it is included in the kinds of harassment covered by Canadian Human Rights Act. In that sense, our definition of harassment is actually broader than that in the Canadian Human Rights Act because in the Canadian
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee Tony, could you answer please?
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee That's why it's important to have a third party make the judgment. If you get into a dispute—he said, she said—who's to decide? They each have, from their perspective, valid points of view. You need a third party to make that adjudication.
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee In terms of human resource management generally, no, and that's why most policies are quite distinct. In fact, most human resource policies as applied to military members derive from the National Defence Act and the Queen's regulations subordinate to them, whereas on the civilian
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee In harassment, yes, that's right.
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee That's correct.
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee Sure, and I think there are two parts to my answer. The first one is that one of the key changes in the philosophy underlying the most recent version of the policy was to shift from a crime-and-punishment approach to harassment to a restorative justice approach. This means that
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee For the Canadian Forces, actually that's not the case. Our representation of women in the Canadian Forces is about 15% of the regular and reserve force. Above the rank of lieutenant-colonel, it's less than that. It's about 9%, 8%, and starts to get lower as you get into the rank
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee I think the major index of any cultural change is behavioural change. It's often stated you have to change attitudes before you see the necessary behavioural change, but that isn't always the case. In fact, through the strong enforcement of the desired behavioural norms, you can
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee Let me approach this with a fairly broad perspective, first of all. I think over the last 20 years there has been a significant change in the culture within the Canadian Forces that has been reinforced by a number of initiatives, which all have this as a central focus: what is ap
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee The exit survey has been in place for a considerable length of time, I think at least 20 years or more. One of the difficulties in acquiring consistent data, particularly about voluntary attrition behaviour, is that completion of the survey is voluntary. In some cases individuals
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee It hasn't surfaced as a sufficiently significant issue for us to address.
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee Again, because that's a process issue that Tony is more familiar with, I'll ask him to respond to that. I'm sorry; I'm not trying to duck this.
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee I'm not aware of any contact with us. Tony, have you had any?
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek
Status of Women committee Madam Chair, fortunately Commander Crewe is the co-chair of the working group that's looking at the integration of those conflict resolution systems, so I'll ask him to respond to that question. He has some in-depth knowledge of that process.
November 22nd, 2012Committee meeting
Karol Wenek