Mrs. Mary McFadyen at the National Defence Committee

On February 25th, 2009. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2009 / 4 p.m.

General Counsel, Office of the Ombudsman for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces

I don't know. That's a very good question to ask the Surgeon General when she comes.

Before we released our report, in order to be open and transparent we gave them a draft copy to comment on before it was provided to the minister. They indicated some initiatives they had intended to bring forward to try to meet the recommendations. I noticed last month and this month on the DND website there are some backgrounders on what steps they have taken towards dealing with the issue. That's where I got the information about the deadline changing to 2010.

So we applaud them for trying, but we'll see if these actually are enough to meet the intent of our recommendations to make sure that the necessary work is actually done.

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