Status of Women committee  It's long, lonely and damn difficult, but I'm only partway through this. The real issue is what it is doing to, in this particular case, the woman who was directly the victim here and how she was made powerless even though she tried. The entire institutional weight, influence,

Status of Women committee  Yes, it is. They have a clear strategy: fatigue, frustrate or bankrupt you. They can act with impunity and without accountability.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. Maybe it's my disposition, but I write it down, record it, stamp it and send it, you know.

Status of Women committee  The only response I got throughout this was from Mr. Choi, the assistant deputy minister. Remember, I'm dealing with things over a five-year program. Three years ago, or thereabouts, he basically either dismissed what I was bringing forward or thereafter ignored it. Because of t

Status of Women committee  To my knowledge, absolutely nothing was done. I was never contacted by anybody. My point of view was never solicited. Procedural fairness, the right to that due process, the ability to advocate on my own behalf, suitable witnesses, all of that was outrightly denied to me.

Status of Women committee  Absolutely not. I sat as a witness at the defence committee when some of that was being said. I just wish I had had the opportunity to ask that witness a question. That was absolutely not the case in my experience and for my particular case, no.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much for that particular question. Certainly, for me, I have been persistent. There is no doubt, from my perspective, that one of the basic approaches of the government is to ignore when they get something. You identified that I raised a complaint based upon Bill

Status of Women committee  The process in and of itself on a single event is adequate, but the overall approach does not have what I would call a programmatic approach to it, so they dealt with it individually. Each one is separate. There isn't a program around it. There's no compliance checking. There's

Status of Women committee  Yes, I escalated it to the deputy minister on Mr. Crosby's case. It was brushed off and dismissed by Mr. Choi, as I said. Then I raised that up to the minister. In fact, I sent several letters to the minister on various aspects of my particular case and the woman's case as well.

Status of Women committee  No, the only response I got on my issues related to scapegoating was, as I said, Mr. Choi's outright dismissal of it.

Status of Women committee  That's absolutely correct.

Status of Women committee  No, but listening to some of the media reports, it seems to be the standard approach when I heard what the navy was doing on their red room issue. They get somebody of lower rank to absolve the boss of their bad behaviour. It's very convenient for them and very inconvenient for

Status of Women committee  Yes, to my understanding, Mr. Choi, given the policy that he's responsible for.... It says conducting what is called a situational assessment cannot be delegated.

Status of Women committee  At its essence, yes, that's correct.

Status of Women committee  Again, at its essence, that's absolutely correct.