Status of Women committee  As an offshoot of a normal labour management consultation process, USGE was offered the opportunity to take part in a variety of working groups to assess or deal with different elements of Bill C-42. As I mentioned earlier, in my case, I sit on the working group that is dealing w

Status of Women committee  Speaking for USGE, as you know, all the components have a mandate to represent x departments. My focus and the bulk of my work happens to be with the RCMP, although I represent employees at a number of other departments. In preparation for this appearance I focused on the very

Status of Women committee  I'd be pleased to do so.

Status of Women committee  A lot of problems have been identified in dealing with the issue of sexual harassment in the federal workplace. Part of the problem is a lack of accurate statistical information. In a PSAC brief, for example, a suggestion was made that when we do our next public service employee

Status of Women committee  In my view, no.

Status of Women committee  You have the RCMP and then the other departments we serve. Let's look at Treasury Board policy, for example. Yes, there's a new harassment policy, but in my view, it's a dramatically weakened policy. I'll give you a classic example. The old policy granted a complainant the righ

Status of Women committee  Yes, if I may. We have some specific examples and numbers in terms of a specific scenario. For example, the case of Donald Ray, and just for your benefit, it's a matter of public record. The case has been much publicized. The disciplinary report was publicized on the Internet an

Status of Women committee  I can respond to that. Informally is a bit of a misnomer, because it can be informal without the utilization of various redress mechanisms, or it can be informal at the end of a process of using redress mechanisms. For example, in one of the cases I was involved with, at the en