The Prime Minister's Office has set up a small team to handle harassment complaints from political staffers working for cabinet ministers.
A spokeswoman for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the two senior aides on the team are tasked with responding to questions and complaints from ministerial staffers _ including those in the PMO _ regarding sexual harassment and other inappropriate workplace behaviour.
The Harassment Resolution and Investigation Office, which was set up last October, can also arrange for an independent investigation into allegations.
News of the office came to light after the Huffington Post published allegations by Myriam Denis, who says she was contacted by Claude-Eric Gagne, then a senior official in the PMO, with a flirtatious message months after he had interviewed her for a job she did not get.
Gagne resigned last week after being the subject of a since-concluded third-party investigation into other allegations, which he denies.
According to the Huffington Post, Denis says after she shared some of these details on social media, someone from the PMO reached out to ask her about them and then said he could refer her to the third-party investigator.