Government Operations committee  That item covers a number of different sub-items. One of them is the transfer of exempt staff who were previously under PSPC, who are now reporting to the Deputy Prime Minister. That's just a straight transfer. It's not new funding or an increase in cost to taxpayers. It's just a

Government Operations committee  It's all new funding to us. All but the $2.3 million is new from the fiscal framework. The $2.3 million is going to be a transfer from PSPC.

Government Operations committee  It's actually a bit—

Government Operations committee  There are a couple things. First, I'd clarify that it's not just for Deputy Prime Minister support. There was a list of a number of items. Part of this is continuing—

Government Operations committee  I'd be happy to provide a breakdown to the committee.

Government Operations committee  I'll turn to my colleague Ken MacKillop, who will give you an overview of what we're spending that funding on.

Government Operations committee  It's difficult to pick a target that would be a one-size-fits-all target for a department. The types of training that we need in the intelligence area, for example.... We actually have a school for intelligence analysts that is housed at PCO and supports a number of different dep

Government Operations committee  Again, training is a broad category. The training that you need in one job—health and safety—could be different from the training that is needed for another job. There are certain types of training that are mandatory. For example, at PCO, health and safety training is mandatory.

Government Operations committee  There are a couple of things that I would point out. One is that, just looking at the numbers themselves, year over year the harassment number actually went down in government, not up.

Government Operations committee  It went from 18% in 2017 to 15% in—

Government Operations committee  Mr. McCauley, I do want to make clear that there's an absolute number, which is “were you harassed in the last year?” That number is down. Within that there are sub-questions. When you say 47%, that's 47% of the 15%. That's not discounted. It's just to clarify that it's not 47%

Government Operations committee  There are two portions of this. One of them would be at the PCO itself. We actually have spent a lot of time talking about PSES results on a branch-by-branch basis.

Government Operations committee  For the general public service, a safe work space policy has come out and every department has been asked to.... There are five different sections to that particular policy.

Government Operations committee  There is direction.

Government Operations committee  I'd have to clarify whether it comes for approval, but it is being reported back from departments. Departments are expected to actually put more data together and to report in a very public way on discrimination on a number of different things. It's about not just reducing discri