For those of you who have seen the announcement—I think it was on Monday by the Minister—we are very appreciative of the work that was done by the minister's advisory panel on anti-racism for pointing out what I would say are the factors, the realities, from both the people with lived experiences and the people they heard who said, “You have the information available. You need to act.” That is certainly what we need to be doing.
The experience of what we hear from our people, from our advisory groups, who are there to help us identify the specific elements as well as the many recommendations that have come before that is where we have to go forward. We have already undertaken a number of those initiatives, moving forward to address some of those aspects ahead of us.
I would say that it is a challenge that we cannot shy away from, and we have many reports. The reality is that we need to make sure that the activities and how we're addressing the various recommendations that we have result in a cohesive outcome. Sometimes the recommendations can be variations on other recommendations in different reports, and we need to pull those together for the outcome we're looking for and the best way forward.
Some of the very simple things like exit interviews, mentoring programs and focusing on a character-based approach to selection of individuals are items already now under way within the Canadian Armed Forces, and we absolutely think that the work the panel did was wonderful to be highlighting this to us again.