Thank you.
Thank you so much for your excellent presentations. I have a lot of questions and only five minutes.
I'm thinking about your comment, Major Perron, in terms of how we can bring more men along. You didn't ask that question, but that's kind of how I'm.... How do we do it better? I've worked only in male-dominated environments, so I'm very familiar with that changing culture. I guess that's the first part of my question.
The second part, which just came to me, is to what extent, particularly for those who have been in the military for a while—and I'm talking about men—they have a fear that they might have done something in the past and all of a sudden we're asking them to change. It's almost like they actually have to acknowledge that they've done something they shouldn't have done. Also, there's a gradation. There's saying stuff, and there's doing stuff; there's level 1 doing stuff, level 2 doing stuff, and so on. There are different levels. It might have been 30 years ago or 20 years ago. That fear plays in, and it's easier just to say “No, we're not changing” versus accepting that you might not have done something well. That's playing into not changing the culture.
I could be imagining this, but it just struck me as you were talking, as we're having this conversation, that this might be very much a part of it. To what extent do we need to hold someone accountable for something from 20 or 30 years ago? Also, how do we actually provide some sort of space where there's an acknowledgement, but that allows us to move on?
What are your thoughts on that?