Typically, anybody who moves into the national role has started within the regional role, so there's a sort of stepping stone process. Many of the national co-chairs, so me.... My civilian counterpart has been in the role for quite a long time, so I have a mentorship, so to speak, from her.
There is employment equity and diversity training embedded within the CF for every single member, some of what we call career courses, basic training, all the leadership courses.
There's also training available through the public service. Typically, somebody who is involved in a role, like me, has an innate interest in that, and we're in the process of developing a training manual to formalize that process.