Thank you, Madam Chair.
I just want to say, before I read it, that I really appreciate that we have come together and that we're taking the time. This issue is of grave and growing concern. I know that this is a constituency week, but I truly appreciate the work that will be undertaken by this committee to look at this issue through the very specific gendered lens that the status of women committee provides.
I move:
That the motions adopted by the Committee on Thursday March 11, 2021 concerning a study of sexual misconduct within the Canadian Armed Forces be rescinded and replaced with the following:
That, pursuant to Standing Order 108(2), the committee undertake a study of sexual misconduct within the Canadian Armed Forces, including a review of Operation HONOUR; that the evidence and documentation received by the committee during the First Session of the 42nd Parliament in the report titled “A Force for Change: Creating a Culture of Equality for Women in the Canadian Armed Forces” be taken into consideration by the committee in the current session; that the committee invite the following witnesses before the committee with a one-hour panel dedicated to the Minister of Defence; a one-hour panel dedicated to the Acting Chief of the Defence Staff and Lieutenant-General Frances Allen, Canada's Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium; a one-hour panel dedicated to the Canadian Armed Forces Ombudsman and the Commander of the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service; a one-hour panel dedicated to retired Supreme Court Justice Marie Deschamps; and invite the following witnesses, It's Just 700; Dawn McIlmoyle-Knott; retired Master Corporal Stéphanie Raymond; Lieutenant-Colonel Eleanor Taylor; that the committee dedicate four consecutive meetings to this study; and that the study begins the next scheduled sitting of the committee on Tuesday, March 23, 2021.
Thank you, Madam Chair.