Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we agree. It makes sense to have an extension. As has been said, two extensions were granted in McIvor. The judge in Descheneaux specifically directed that there needed to be a broader fix by the government, that they shouldn't do another piecemeal fix as they did in 2010

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We agree that it should be amended now. It should not be passed. It should not be left to phase two. It needs to be fixed now. To the extent that an amendment can encompass what Dr. Palmater has suggested in terms of paragraph 6(1)(a) for everybody, we certainly agree with that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you so much for inviting LEAF to speak with you today. We're very grateful to the Algonquin nation for allowing us to meet on their territory. My name is Kim Stanton. I'm the legal director at LEAF, the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund.

Status of Women committee  We have in the past. We don't have funding to do so currently. It's certainly something that we would love to do again, but we can't do presently.

Status of Women committee  You asked how the policy would change a culture of sexual harassment if it were properly implemented. In general, as you see more women attaining leadership positions in organizations that also adopt the training models that have been discussed and the types of policies that both

Status of Women committee  Also, it's to know that the acts themselves are unacceptable from management's perspective, in the first place, which I think is very important. A number of the organizations that you've heard about so far have situations where people think, because there aren't incidents being r

Status of Women committee  Thanks for the question. I don't have statistical data for you on that. What I can tell you is that as an organization, our experience is that awareness campaigns, simply put, do tend to increase awareness, and particularly of the mechanisms that are available. This gets back

Status of Women committee  This is the difficulty. I think you noted from our brief, and perhaps from other witnesses you've had before you, that there aren't good numbers anymore on the rates of sexual harassment in the various workplaces. We have the study from Corrections Canada, I believe we cited, w