Thanks for that. I'm a history prof. I'm used to open questions.
Operation Minerva was part of a group of responses to what Maclean's characterized as the rape crisis in the Canadian Armed Forces in the nineties, and it was also part of the gender integration of the Canadian Forces required by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. For Operation Minerva, there's actually a chief of review services report that's still available online and documents how it failed.
It failed in almost exactly the same way as Operation Honour. There was no real commitment on the part of senior leadership to carry it out. The actions were many but ineffective. There was no ongoing evaluation of it, which has been a huge problem with Operation Honour. In the end, it went exactly like Operation Honour. An original first team set up to execute it was absorbed back into the organization and down-ranked continuously until it just faded away.
I suggested in a 2016 report that I wrote for the strategic response team on sexual misconduct that, actually, if they just read the chief of review services' 1998 report on Operation Minerva, they'd know exactly what things to avoid. I'm not sure if anybody did, but that's the short answer.