Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Actually, the reference to harassment is under what would become the new human resource management authorities for the commissioner. It spells out that the commissioner may establish a process for the investigation and resolution of, as it says, harassment “disputes”.

Status of Women committee  Sorry.

Status of Women committee  Probably the easiest way to describe it—and I'll give a rough sketch—is that if an incident occurs and it is not addressed immediately, it is allowed to fester, the person who is the target of the inappropriate behaviour looks around for an opportunity to bring this to someone to

Status of Women committee  That's a tough one, Madam Chair. The lifestyle of the RCMP is not something my daughter would be attracted to at any rate. However, if either she or my son were to come forward, I would support them entirely. They would in fact be the third generation to join. At this point, as I

Status of Women committee  The best way to approach it, and the way we've been approaching it since probably 2008-09, is through a systems approach. As Assistant Commissioner Woodburn says, it's not one thing that will be the magic bullet to overcome these challenges. C-42 will definitely help, because it

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. One of the barriers we face right now is the structural difference between applying the processes for investigation and resolution of a harassment complaint where a member is a respondent under the Treasury Board policy or applying part IV of the RCMP Act. They are tw

Public Safety committee  It is a regulation.

Public Safety committee  The opportunity would be to ensure that notwithstanding that particular subsection of the RCMP Superannuation Act, which is subsection 3(3), a person who is appointed as a reservist is not to be considered a public service employee.

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. The RCMP reserve program itself has been in operation since approximately 2004, and it's been run on a pilot basis for the last few years. It is an incredibly useful tool in terms of backfilling vacancies and being able to provide the seniority that sometim