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National Defence committee  I will refer to the sexual harassment side, a much smaller offence. If they come back to us and they fear reprisal—and that's most of the cases—then we work with the individual and the chain of command to make sure that we deal with the issue. Sometimes it has to do with ensurin

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  I will answer in French. I served in Afghanistan in 2007. Over the next two years, I served as the chief of operations for Afghanistan in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces here, in Ottawa. So I am very familiar with this issue. Every contingent is deployed with medical officers

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  The office has been tracking harassment in general for a few years. The sexual assault piece is something we are not dealing with as an office because it's not part of our mandate. For anything that is of a criminal nature, when people do call us, we immediately refer them to the

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  No, we're not. Essentially, we're not opening it as a formal complaint because we're not dealing with those complaints. So it's immediate referral. We send people to the proper authorities.

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  It's exactly the same on the Canadian Forces side. They have mandatory training. One way for us to gauge whether there are issues with diversity, sensitivity, and all, is by looking at individual complaints we receive. I would say that we receive very little about this subject. I

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  There's annual training that is required for all the troops, so that's everybody. When they go through their command courses at the various levels, there's also training for the chain of command.

May 15th, 2014Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  In our last analysis, we noted 58 complaints regarding harassment over the past two years. Of those, only 3 involved sexual harassment. So we get very few of those. But we do know there are some problems. People are reluctant to complain about sexual harassment out of fear of rep

February 4th, 2013Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  The regulations already include relatively clear guidelines on the matter. They prohibit the use of reprisal and give people full freedom to come forward. I think it's a matter of the culture needing to change, and changing the corporate culture can take years.

February 4th, 2013Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, one of the complaints we still receive quite a bit is about the delay in the grievance process. It is still significant at times. On average we're talking about two years for a decision. This is why we launched a mini-systemic study on director general compensation a

February 4th, 2013Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  As the ombudsman mentioned before, within the grievance process there are two levels: initial authority and final authority. Based on existing data within the Director General Canadian Forces Grievance Authority, there are well over 1,000 grievances awaiting a decision at the ini

February 4th, 2013Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

National Defence committee  No, at this time we haven't seen or received any report of the ex gratia being used, but my understanding is that perhaps the CDS will appear and will probably be in a better position to answer this question.

February 4th, 2013Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

Status of Women committee  This service is mandatory for public service. It is actually a tool that has to be implemented for public servants. This service will continue to exist, but it will be very limited. In my view, this service will be centralized in the large centres and people will have to travel t

December 4th, 2012Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

Status of Women committee  When I looked at the statistics on harassment, I did a study. I looked at the number of complaints received by the office over the past two years. When I added them up, I got a total of 134 harassment complaints in the past two years. I separated the complaints into different ca

December 4th, 2012Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

Status of Women committee  There is no environment.

December 4th, 2012Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier

Status of Women committee  Cutting alternative dispute resolution or ADR services was the decision of the Canadian Forces. I know that this will have a considerable impact because informal conflict resolution helped to solve a lot of problems. Major strides have been made over the past five years within t

December 4th, 2012Committee meeting

Alain Gauthier