Government Operations committee  If the employee believes that it's harassment, there is a process where the employee can grieve through the normal grievance process and all elements will be taken into consideration when dealing with this, the circumstances that led to the initial disclosure, and a determination

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  For reporting and...?

Government Operations committee  I'm going to take a stab at that, and then I'll hand it over to Mary Anne because there are some issues. In the finding of wrongdoing where disciplinary action is required, there is the requirement to start over a whole new labour relations grievance process to be able to addres

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  No.

Government Operations committee  Yes.

Government Operations committee  Just to begin, we do not have access to the document that you have.

Government Operations committee  All I have is this....

Government Operations committee  I think the question can be responded to nonetheless. You're saying there's a large number of cases put forward, but only a few cases are acted upon. Again, cases are put forward, and after they're put forward, they can be redirected. Therefore, it brings the numbers down. In som

Government Operations committee  I'm sorry, I don't have that information. I think it would be very difficult to obtain, because they reside in the various departments and they're going through their own internal processes within the departments. Unfortunately, I don't have that information. As much as I'd want

Government Operations committee  We do have questions on harassment, on discrimination, in the public service employee survey right now, and we're now going ahead with an annual survey that launched recently. It's going to look at mental health, harassment, and discrimination. It's going to look at a whole bunch

Government Operations committee  No, it doesn't. You have to understand, as I'm sure you do, that a survey is a bit of a broad shot.

Government Operations committee  It has multiple questions. One of them is “Do you feel that you have been harassed?” Don't quote me on the question, but it's something like, “Have you been subjected to...?” It might go to, “From whom? Was it a supervisor, peer, or somebody else?” We come away with that type of

Government Operations committee  I have one last response to that. Just listen to the words that I'm going to say: the violation of any act of Parliament or any act, legislated in Canada or the provinces and territories. That's not a small thing. That is a big thing, so hopefully there are not too many people in