Veterans Affairs committee  If I understand the question, it's about who is responsible for maintaining this external pressure on the military. I suppose that would be the people in this room.

Veterans Affairs committee  I'm sorry. It just went quiet.

Veterans Affairs committee  Have I been to a summary charge...?

Veterans Affairs committee  What I heard is whether there's a process in the military of a summary charge, and whether I have ever attended one. Is that the question?

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for the question. I think there would probably be an immediate benefit to it in that we might see.... I think there's an idea that in the red zone—the initial period of basic training, or the initial period of any start to a new thing—sexual violence is more likely to

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you, ma'am. The first thing that comes to mind in terms what is to be done is that there have now been two reports, two external reviews, in the last six years on precisely the same issue. There's an immense amount of overlap in the recommendations between Deschamps and Ar

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you for your question. I don't know that it's going to be a simple solution by any means. I don't think that adding more women to senior positions.... I'm sure it's a good start, but it's kind of like that analogy of a different captain at the same ship. It's just a numer

Veterans Affairs committee  Thank you. I think Stephanie will probably be able to speak a little more to data in terms of going to VAC afterwards. I do think that it needs to be externalized. The nature of the military environment is that in PMQ situations, you are friends with, live with, cohabit with,

Veterans Affairs committee  The incident that happened while I was on duty, right before my basic training happened, was reported by someone other than me, and I was told what the timeline would be for how things would roll out and that I would be expected to testify at a certain thing and that this person'

Veterans Affairs committee  The only story I shared or alluded to in my testimony on which I will say something did happen quite quickly had to do with one of the instructors on my basic training course. He had talked about wanting to sleep with one of the students after the course was done. That came to li

Veterans Affairs committee  With regard to the example of the instructor on the basic training, I think that a big thing is not just acting in the short term to make the situation more comfortable for everyone. In that situation, he was removed from the course as an instructor. However, that was it; that wo

Veterans Affairs committee  Right. Yes. I joined in November 2017, and then my first full-time contract started in May 2018, so it would have been late May or early June when this happened.

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. Of course. You're absolutely right. It was a hard thing to hear and a weird thing to hear being assigned to someone who had said such problematic things—not just about me, but other stuff he had said. For me, in some ways it set the tone of what to expect going forward in

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely. Thank you for your question, sir. I came to Canada when I was 12. I was born in Malaysia. My mom is Canadian and my dad is Malaysian. When I first came here as a young person, there was a real enchantment with Canada as a project, as a nation. There were rights affo

Veterans Affairs committee  No, I was certainly not.