Mr. Chair, I'm going to provide some of the answers to the questions, and then I'll defer to Jennifer Bennett, who is working the issues on a day-to-day basis.
First of all, a week as you have so illustrated or characterized would certainly be supported by the Canadian Armed Forces. General Vance has made it one of his priorities besides Operation Honour to increase the diversity numbers within the Canadian Armed Forces, and that is certainly one of my objectives as well.
In so doing, we're talking about cultural change, which will take a generation or more, as you can appreciate. In addition to that, we're trying to, as you have alluded to, bring out the behavioural change in the short term. Behavioural change in the short term will lead to cultural change in the long term. Institutionally, we must create the environment where culture change or behavioural change will be sustaining and enduring.
This speaks to policies, training, education, and a marked change in probably how we treat people when it comes to men and women, people of different sexual orientations, and different cultures, actually, if we can put it to that extent.
The work we're doing on the institutional side, which is very much process driven, which is very much going to create that environment, is ongoing. Admiral Bennett could speak a little bit more on that.
I would also like to mention that gender-based analysis has to be a part of our processes as we're moving forward. General Vance has identified Major-General Tammy Harris as the gender-based analysis champion for the Canadian Armed Forces. We're taking the lead on that to look at our policies to ensure there is no gender bias in our policies as we're moving forward, and that we're looking at them in a very structured and pragmatic way.
Putting that all together, our belief is that this will help to bring us to a sustained cultural change, and much of that has already been started.