Status of Women committee  In preparation for coming here today, I actually canvassed my staff, because I'm not directly involved in the representation of the membership. Quite frankly, I have not personally witnessed or experienced sexual harassment. Even though DND may not be the greatest workplace, I en

Status of Women committee  Two of the three examples are now at the final level of the grievance process. Depending on the outcome at the final level, we'll make a determination as to whether they can go to the PSAC for adjudication. The third one I personally represented, and the member could have filed a

Status of Women committee  It's a good question. I agree with you. I always say that harassment is in the eye of the person filing the complaint. What is offensive to me should be investigated. If it's determined at the end of the process that it's not harassment in the eyes of the law or the legislation,

Status of Women committee  I'll speak as a 35-year public service worker with DND. We need our employer to respect legislation and the policies that they actually put in place. The harassment policy that we have in DND they call harassment prevention. They promote zero tolerance, but at the same time the

Status of Women committee  I could give them to the committee following this meeting, yes.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for the question. When you are identifying statistics out of the public service employee survey, you have to also take into consideration where the statistics came from in regard to the geography of the country. Coming from a DND perspective, our numbers were consid