Status of Women committee  I am a military domestic violence survivor. I endured 15 years of violence that did end up with civilian charges against my perpetrator who was retained by the military and was allowed to continue his career despite having a criminal background in domestic violence. I'm not alone.

Status of Women committee  I definitely believe that online tools can be helpful in terms of anonymity. It is extremely difficult for victims to be face to face with a stranger, trying to talk about their situation. However, again, this needs to be outside of the construct of the Canadian Armed Forces and the chain of command, because if you know that the information you are presenting is going to go to your CO, which may be part of the problem in certain cases, then you're not safe.

Status of Women committee  We are hoping that the training program we developed, which is based on, as I said, civilian best practices, is completely different from Operation Honour. It had its successes, but it has had, unfortunately, as discussed, so many issues that it's become a joke. This course is different in that it takes what has already been discovered as best practices within the civilian world and applies them to the military.

Status of Women committee  We are a group of, actually, five co-founders. Some are retired veterans like me, and we also have serving members. It just came together as a thing that we needed to do as survivors. We are all injured. We all have PTSD diagnoses, so day-to-day volunteering is challenging, but we found that this is a way that we can give back and formally coordinate the perspective of survivors.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm here as a veteran military sexual trauma survivor, a military domestic violence survivor and as a representative of the Survivor Perspectives Consulting Group, also referred to as SPCG. SPCG was recently created by a small group of military sexual trauma survivors.