Best way to address sexual harassment on the Hill is ‘to raise the bar’ of acceptable behaviour, says leading expert Lalonde

About 700 staffers, including PMO principal secretary Gerald Butts and chief of staff Katie Telford, attended the sexual harassment training session on the Hill last week.
About 700 Liberal parliamentary and exempt ministerial staffers, including some pictured, attended the mandatory sexual harassment training in the John A. MacDonald building on Wednesday, Jan. 9.
The best way to address the issue of sexual harassment on Parliament Hill or in any other workplace is for managers to raise the bar of acceptable behaviour to where everyone is treated as equals, and for bystanders to call out unacceptable behaviour whenever they see it, says Julie Lalonde, an Otta...

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