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The Ghomeshi situation has MPP’s at Queen’s Park talking about how to deal with cases of sexual harassment in the workplace in Ontario.

There was plenty of reaction at Queen’s Park today to the Ghomeshi allegations and to the idea of forming a committee involving all three parties to look at sexual harassment in the workplace.

MPP Laurie Scott raised the idea of doing this. She said in the wake of the allegations against Ghomeshi, there have been numerous other cases that have come to light showing that complaints of sexual harassment in the workplace have not been taken seriously in Ontario. Here’s what her fellow MPP’s had to say about forming an all-party committee to study sexual harassment in the workplace.

Tracey McCharles, MPP Pickering-Scarborough East: “It is completely unacceptable, this number of one in three women who experience sexual assault in Ontario. I find it unacceptable, the premier finds it unacceptable and we’ll continue to make investments and look at what else can we do in co-operation with opposition parties to address this issue.”

Laurie Scott, MPP Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes: “It obviously still exists. And we have stories coming out every day. Western University, stories today from students in relation to the CBC. So it exists. I’m not able to say what the committee is going to find. Think that obviously needs to be looked at because it is not working and workers are not protected.”

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath: “These kinds of things cannot be tolerated, and you know people wonder why victims don’t come forward; why women don’t talk about this kind of thing. It’s not just women often, there’s others. Men can be victims of sexual harassment in the workplace as well.”

Premier Kathleen Wynne says she and her staff will look into forming a committee on workplace sexual harassment but they aren’t committing to anything concrete just yet.