Thank you, Chair, and thank you to the minister and staff for all your hard work on this very important file.
I want to touch on gender balance within our Canadian Armed Forces. You touched on the Deschamps report as well, and I understand that it is a departmental goal to increase representation of women by 1% per year for the next 10 years. Can you explain how that will happen? What are the challenges you currently face in having more gender representation, and how are you going to overcome those challenges?