Status of Women committee  Certainly I don't want to speak for the department—I'm speaking for the military police group—but I can tell you that we have a number of commanding officers, and each of them I trust implicitly to do the right thing. They are given the training and the judgment to make those cal

Status of Women committee  At the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal, our commander deals with his subcommanders on a daily basis. Each of the commanding officers has with him a chief warrant officer, who's the senior non-commissioned member rank within the Canadian Forces, to provide him with that kind of co

Status of Women committee  I could speak for what happens within my headquarters. Every year, and normally in the August-September timeframe, what we call the posting season, when people change jobs, there's movement, and we have indoctrination training, or welcome training, in the headquarters. At that ti

Status of Women committee  I can't think of specific examples off the top of my head. Certainly if there is anything of a sexual nature that's contained as an offence within the code of service discipline, that would constitute sexual misconduct. The defence administrative orders and directive on sexual mi

Status of Women committee  I don't know how to respond to that. As I said before, I'm very proud to be a member of the military police. The military police are an essential part of the discipline within the Canadian Armed Forces. We are a tool for the commanding officer to use to ensure that discipline is

Status of Women committee  Certainly the military police are held to a higher standard, because we have to police the military. If that creates a positive work environment, then I would say, yes, absolutely.

Status of Women committee  We have a very progressive training regimen and we bring our folks back to the Military Police Academy at various levels of their career and teach them leadership skills, supervisory skills, refresher training, and everything like that. Again, I think it's part of the whole packa

Status of Women committee  The victim services program is centrally managed by the Canadian Forces national investigation service. There is a victim services officer in each military police detachment. In fact, in CFB Petawawa, we've gone so far as to have an office for the child and family services folks,

Status of Women committee  Yes, ma'am.

Status of Women committee  You're referring to the definition that I gave in my opening remarks.

Status of Women committee  Within the Canadian Forces Military Police group, we tell people to treat others with dignity and respect. As Major Langlois said, it's when it goes into the realm of code of service discipline or criminal offence that we get involved as military police, as our function as milita

Status of Women committee  My expectation would be that anyone receiving a complaint where there's even a shadow of a doubt that it's criminal in nature or a code of service discipline offence, the commanding officer of that unit has an obligation to get legal counsel and report the issue to the military p

Status of Women committee  Thank you for that question. That's a very important point because clearly when it's sexual harassment, as I mentioned before, it's handled in the administrative realm. The incident may constitute an offence under the code of service discipline or the Criminal Code. Certain elem

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, ma'am. I'm very confident. The military police are a very professional organization, and I'm very proud to be part of the military police. We have a code of professional conduct that is part of our culture, part of our very fabric. I'm very confident that w

Status of Women committee  What I can tell you is that there are defence administrative orders and directives on harassment, and people are encouraged to review those policies on a yearly basis.