Status of Women committee  The way I've approached it is to have my COs, each one of them, for each division—which corresponds to a province or territory, with the exception of A division—deploy a respectful workplace strategy that is monitored by us at headquarters. The strategies feature the engagement o

Status of Women committee  I have two answers. One is that she's going to have a number of avenues available to her, from picking up the phone to making a confidential report into the centre of the organization so that it goes around that officer in charge. But more importantly, I want to address your que

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the question. The $9.8 million goes to the implementation of Bill C-42. The lion's share of that money will go to training and preparation of our NCOs. One of the themes of this new legislative scheme is to allow for conduct management at the lowest

Status of Women committee  Well, not until the act comes into force, but it will be, yes.

Status of Women committee  We are preparing. In fact, we have a huge working group that's preparing a number of things to manage the new relationship, for example, with the CPC as it becomes the civilian review and complaints body. That's going to be able to walk into the organization and do policy-based r

Status of Women committee  That's a little bit separate. That's mandatory harassment training we get everybody trained on, what the rules are, what the prevention is, what the identification systems are, what the reporting streams are. There's 94% compliance with that harassment training. Our training in

Status of Women committee  That's exactly right. Sexual harassment has its own connotation of being completely unsatisfactory. Harassment more broadly, as we've been talking about it, that being bullying and misuse of authority, affects everybody equally. I think it goes to how we interact with each other,

Status of Women committee  Yes, and early intervention systems in offices to resolve workplace conflict before it becomes a formal complaint and heads off....

Status of Women committee  Yes, I think that Bill C-42 will allow me to develop some flexibility in reacting to the workforce today and into the future. Our action plan, which I've spoken of in my opening comments, also sets some very real targets for us. For example, we're shooting to reduce our harassmen

Status of Women committee  I think it is. I think the element of independence in ultimately reviewing the force's response to harassment complaints and the disposition on some of these complaints is important. For example, I think there's a wide range of understanding of how that independence would be bro

Status of Women committee  I have not heard of a cut of $58 million, so I'll have to be on my Berry as soon as I'm done here. That said, we have contributed and participated in our end-of-the-deficit reduction exercise. We are well positioned to achieve those goals. As I said earlier this morning, I don'

Status of Women committee  Let me just say, look, I am against the abuse of women, girls, humans. That's our job, frankly, as a police force, to intervene when those kind of situations arise. I'm very troubled. I said that this morning and I'll say it again now. I'm very concerned with this notion that ci

Status of Women committee  “RCMPing”, that's a p-verb. I'll tell you that the value of having women in a police role is that you take the interaction with a citizen away from the force dynamic and you put it in the behaviour, thoughtful dynamic. It is quite a powerful force to be reckoned with. We have th

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I think that's right. I don't think there is a systemic sexual harassment problem in the RCMP. We can maybe debate words around what the problem is. I've described it as misuse of authority. Mr. McPhail refers to bullying. Other people may refer to it as

Status of Women committee  Well, I think we are looking at it through a gender lens. I don't know, though, that it is as broad and perhaps as deep-rooted as some would have us believe. I think it's a problem. I think we're transitioning from an older sort of paramilitary, male-dominated force to a new, mod