I can say that when women joined the Canadian Armed Forces in all trades in 1989, I don't think there was forward thinking about what happens once women start retiring en masse once they've served 20 years. We are currently in a 10- to 15-year period in which we've been seeing a large cohort of women entering into their time as veterans. No one thought about doing something proactively, so now we're just reactively trying to fix this problem.
On November 28th, 2023. See this statement in context.