Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, it really comes into play with isolated postings and young women first out the gate. I can give you something in writing. I don't think I was clear enough on the transition question. Yes, the RCMP needs better transition. If it exists at all, it's non-effective. The impact

Veterans Affairs committee  Absolutely, and as in an exit interview, when somebody's leaving a section, they ask if you would you work for that person again or come back to that section. That's a really easy way to say.... If that person says no and enough people are saying no, then you ask, “Well, what's d

Veterans Affairs committee  I am not aware. As I said, we recommended this to Deputy Commissioner Dubeau, who's retired now. He seemed somewhat interested, but never followed up, so it fell into the black hole. That's the answer. I guess we got the flag.

Veterans Affairs committee  It's slowly going in the right direction, but when the chief justice who was handling the Merlo Davidson case had to make a public plea for serving female members to come forward and say that they should not fear reprisal if they're still working within the RCMP, that's fairly re

Veterans Affairs committee  First of all, I'll push back on the idea—and it's not your idea—of “a bad apple”. That's one way for the organization to say, “It's not us. It's that one person.” No, it's organizational, and it's the federal government's responsibility to make sure that people they give position

Veterans Affairs committee  I'd love to say that we've had influence with them, but we've had very little communication, so... We do have an influence; sorry. We would love to, but the RCMP Veterans' Association works with them, and they're working on their relationship. We asked for statistics. We ha

Veterans Affairs committee  No, that would be the purview of the RCMP. We are volunteers. We're not getting paid. As a matter of fact, Darlene came here on her own dime from Prince Edward Island. She paid her own way. That's how important this is. We did that on occasion to meet with the deputy commissioner

Veterans Affairs committee  Our four recommendations in 2014 were to direct the commissioner of the RCMP to start an ethos change and to intertwine the executive development in the promotion system into the discipline system. We also asked that they reconsider their focus on quotas, because if you just keep

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes. I'm pretty proud of that pin. It's a generational pin. My daughter is a much better Mountie than I ever thought of being, and I hope she inherits a force much better than I had.

Veterans Affairs committee  That's correct. He retired as the operations officer of the advanced training academy in Chilliwack.

Veterans Affairs committee  We did. I was senior to him, and I outranked him as long as I was in the force. He took it well, so that shows you a lot of the men were okay with women being there.

Veterans Affairs committee  Police work is a job to do. We have to solve people problems. We have to command. We step out of a police car and take control of a situation. It's all about leadership. Women brought a different reaction and a different skill set. Too often it started to be devalued. They'd sa

Veterans Affairs committee  Yes, we were better storytellers; we talk too much, though. However, what we've found now in policing is that all of the skills the women brought—the better communications, the negotiating, the emotional intelligence, the buy-in—have reduced the complaints against the force and

Veterans Affairs committee  I'd love to continue.

Veterans Affairs committee  It took us several years—and we're investigators—to try to find out who was on the board and what they were doing, and to try to do outreach. We got one call last year—Ron Lewis and I—from the coordinator chair. She's a lovely woman. She advised us that they're in transition and