Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The importance of the well-being of women and GBLTQ members of the military is utterly critical in a country like Canada, and it's been very distressing to find out how poorly the culture of the Canadian Armed Forces supports them. That's why I'm going to dig further into what's been going on with this Deschamps report. There's been a lot of confusion and dissimulation around this issue and silence from the minister effectively for two weeks, so I appreciate having the occasion to ask some questions.
The minister mentioned that the directive took place before the Deschamps report, but I'll just note that it was actually written on February 25 and the draft review report by Madame Deschamps was received on February 16. That's nine days that this was in hand, so I'd like to ask the minister, was he advised of this initiating directive?