Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good morning, General Whitecross and Admiral Bennett. Thank you both for your service, for your leadership, for being here today, and most importantly, for engaging on this very important topic.
I want to put to you the idea that investigation, discipline, and victim support are tremendously important components of the project overall, but they are what we might consider the downstream components that happen when something bad has occurred.
You mentioned culture change. About an hour ago, I had the opportunity to introduce my private member's bill in the House of Commons. It's an act to create gender equality week in Canada. It's a bill for which I'm looking for feedback, and ultimately support from the Canadian Forces as it goes forward.
I wonder if you could take the lens of gender equality, which is something maybe more diffused, but certainly upstream of sexual misconduct and sexual violence, and illuminate the committee and Canada as a nation a little bit on the culture that is currently in place in the Canadian Forces that we need to change; the subtleties that would facilitate sexual misconduct, sexual violence, and ultimately all the things that we report on and try to correct.