Procedure and House Affairs committee  The Sergeant-at-Arms, for sins in a previous life, is responsible for buses. To him falls the happy task of trying to keep everyone more or less happy with the schedule of buses. They have regular reviews of the traffic patterns of the buses and of the usage and how much time it

Status of Women committee  We are gradually getting there.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

Status of Women committee  Oh, mon Dieu! I talk too much; that's the terrible thing about me.

Status of Women committee  It is hard to say what the reasons why we have seen an improvement are. Certainly having women in management positions makes a difference. As I told Ms. Ashton earlier, it means that employees are able to recognize themselves in the management cadre. That is important. As well,

Status of Women committee  I should say—

Status of Women committee  Yes. I should say quickly that I think all of the parties and all of the whips are very anxious to avoid these kinds of situations, but I don't think any of them view us, the administration, as part of a solution to that. I think they view themselves as handling it in their own p

Status of Women committee  No there isn't.

Status of Women committee  Yes, they are.

Status of Women committee  You're talking about a situation, let's say, in which, if I understand you correctly, you might have an MP and a—

Status of Women committee  Right. This is part of what makes my job the best job in Canada, as far as I'm concerned. It's these kinds of complexities and nuances. One of the things that we as managers and I as Clerk have to be very careful of is the notion that there are various people involved in the

Status of Women committee  Ah, well then, that's—

Status of Women committee  Exactly. If the person has any cause to be upset or to feel that the supervisor is disrespectful to them, they can certainly go to human resources, to the FST program—

Status of Women committee  When the policy was first introduced, there was a mandatory training program for all managers, and that went through the House, and then for all employees. Kathryn, perhaps you can explain the regular.... Certainly any time any new employees are hired, as part of their orientati

Status of Women committee  The short answer is no. We don't have any role to play in making the staff of members aware of what their rights might be and how to operate if they have a conflict, or a harassment situation, or what they view as an abuse of power situation. What we do is, after an election wh