I would not claim to be an expert on what all the best next steps are, but I am someone who has spent many years now caring deeply and passionately specifically about these issues and about issues of supporting, empowering and protecting women.
Over the past five years in particular, since I have been in government and in this role, I have had the great privilege of getting to know a number of women in the armed forces, and particularly a number of the senior women in the armed forces, whom I've been able to have conversations with. I have learned so much from them, though as I said in my opening statement, I've reflected on how much more I need to learn from them and how much harder we have to work at providing them with a space where they can be heard and where actions can be taken. We need people outside of the system as well to force the change, because it clearly cannot all happen within the armed forces alone.
I have a lot of hope for the work that Madame Arbour is going to do, but we all need to stay focused on this in the meantime, including this committee, I hope.