Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  No, I can't afford one. I'm a regular Canadian from Souris, Prince Edward Island, and I don't have the funds to be able—

Status of Women committee  —to afford a legal team.

Status of Women committee  I don't know of any other individuals who went through it to the extent I have. I know there are other individuals who brought their situations before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, but I don't know of any who have dealt with the specifics I've dealt with.

Status of Women committee  Yes. I'm highly connected with the group “It's Just 700”. It's women and men, because the sexual exploitation happened to both genders. There are more women who experienced this or are willing to speak to this than men at this particular time. I'm part of the group “It's Just 700

Status of Women committee  Yes, because of the discrimination, they need to be protected from the group mentality in the Canadian Armed Forces. To answer your question, after they did the first failed investigation, they did another harassment investigation. They made a determination of 18 situations that

Status of Women committee  I started the process four and a half years ago, and it's still going on.

Status of Women committee  It was mid-2015; sorry about that.

Status of Women committee  When I first experienced harassment or, let's say, the military trying to have me declared mentally incompetent for complaining about its hostile sexualized behaviour, I filed a human rights complaint and went through the internal military procedures. That would be like filing a

Status of Women committee  Yes. They assigned me an assisting officer, who then helped me to write the documents in the way they wanted them written, but they wouldn't allow me to put in the documents the issue of the commanding officer being abusive towards me. They were all health care professionals. Hea

Status of Women committee  Yes, or LGBTQ members or anyone who's different....

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  For me, it was a feeling that they wanted to sexually exploit me, so I had to deal with a lot of sexual harassment and a lot of things along those lines.

Status of Women committee  When I was in basic training, I called the Canadian Armed Forces sexual response centre to ask them to help me. All they did at that time was the same thing that the ombudsman would do, which was to direct me back to the mechanisms within the Canadian Armed Forces that would deal

Status of Women committee  It was a circle. You're always being sent back to the person who is trying to...to incidents where you're dealing with exploitation and harassment. It's still that way. I've asked them, and I've been following along with the changes to see how it's been evolving. The sexual res