National Defence committee  Yes, we can do that, Mr. Harris.

National Defence committee  Yes, Mr. Harris.

National Defence committee  Actually, I'll get the chief of military personnel who gathered that data for me to speak to that. But just before I do, we are speaking about the same report. The study involved 2,400 respondents, and while 98.5% said they'd suffered no sexual harassment, one of the findings tha

National Defence committee  I will have to get back to you, Mr. Chair, with that data. I'm not sure of the status of the most recent reports.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Leung, and Mr. Chair. I am in absolute agreement that being proactive as opposed to reactive is a far more comfortable place to be. In fact, about a month and a half before the articles came out in L'actualité and Maclean's, we had reacted to our most recent clim

National Defence committee  Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Chair, that process has been completed. The chief of military personnel completed it for me, and it was based on those findings, that we've moved forward with the plan to get an external review to look at some of the findings he brought forward.

National Defence committee  Can I ask you, JAG, to speak to the statistics that appear in your report?

National Defence committee  I have the Chief of Military Personnel with me. I'll move on to his ground just momentarily. As you will know, ma'am, the Canadian Armed Forces has kind of been leading our NATO partners through the 1980s, the 1990s, and the 2000s in opening up our various occupations—combat oper

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Williamson. Mr. Chair, I'm in complete agreement with Mr. Williamson in the belief that we need to ensure that when an investigation shows sexual misconduct, it has to be prosecuted. I'll ask the Judge Advocate General to comment, but there is evidence, both among

National Defence committee  Okay, ma'am. Thank you. That means that I probably haven't been successful in expressing my concern as well. But I also think we should recognize that in the most recent survey, the climate survey we did, 98.5% of the respondents—it's one of the largest surveys we've ever done—

National Defence committee  Mr. Harris, you're talking about the general report by the—

National Defence committee  In fact, reports have been filed for those years and are in the middle of being processed. The one you were referring to is our most recent report and contains a tremendous amount of data, which helps us improve on the process.

National Defence committee  I have the Judge Advocate General with me, who can update you—

National Defence committee  I have what I require from the reports to move ahead and improve the processes and policies for the Canadian Armed Forces.

National Defence committee  I believe that all laws would be as put forward to us by the House of Commons and the government, yes.