Public Safety committee  Well, if I can, I will. I just don't know that we have that information. I don't know that we measure.... When we go out to a particular community or something and make a presentation to folks, we have a number of people who would respond to that. I don't know whether that inform

Public Safety committee  It's 30%.

Public Safety committee  We will simplify this.

Public Safety committee  If it's possible, it will exceed the expectations of the Treasury Board guidelines right now. From that point of view, we'll have two categories of employee. We'll have regular members and we'll have public servants. If you're a regular member, it's going to be streamlined such

Public Safety committee  Yes.

Public Safety committee  Yes, and it will be brought together to stop this bifurcation of discipline and harassment.

Public Safety committee  I think so. One of my key priorities going forward is revamping our information management more broadly in the organization. But to answer your specific question, we have ways of extracting costs of sick leave and so on. The ability to link them to harassment, though, is not ne

Public Safety committee  I'll tell you specifically, Mr. Chair, what notionally means. I don't have a full understanding of their recommendation around the external management or review of harassment complaints. We do have that now: we have external review committee, the Federal Court, the Human Rights T

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would say that I don't feel that there is a systemic problem of sexual harassment in the RCMP. There are some very public and well-known cases of allegations of sexual harassment in the RCMP, and that is a blight on the RCMP, frankly. I do feel, and I'v

Public Safety committee  Yes, we have. What we're doing now, Mr. Chair, is rolling out a respectful workplace program. It's been very effective. A couple of years back here in Ottawa, they did the same thing. A lot of police forces and organizations do this. We're doing it as well, taking it from best pr

Public Safety committee  Effectively it is, but in the current approach to harassment, an employee makes a harassment complaint, and the response of the organization is to document it, to notify the alleged harasser, to immediately react to and assess what the allegation is. But then a series of decision

Public Safety committee  Here is one, very quickly: I complain about the way you are asking me questions; I feel that you are harassing me. So the chair comes in and has a look at it and says, no, I don't think it's harassment; I think you guys just don't understand one another and I'd like you to work i

Public Safety committee  So every sort of positive action or negative action gets grieved.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, I don't think it turns on resources. Certainly the failings that have been identified by the CPC don't arise from a shortage of resources. They arise from a shortage of compliance with our policies and our expectations. As I've said, there are going

Public Safety committee  That's right. In respect of Bill C-42, that $9.8 million will do what you've mentioned, but it will also give us the opportunity to get the training and the awareness out to those NCOs. They're going to have to manage this discipline thing in a way that they've never had to do be