Yes. There have been a lot of different ideas floated over the last couple of months, or two months, I guess—from a watchdog agency to a civilian inspector general office. Personally, based on my research, I am really advocating for a broad mandate here, for a sort of civilian inspector general office. I would like to see some of the existing functions of the CAF ombudsman and the sexual misconduct response centre integrated into that new structure. What is important to me is that the new agency not only focus on investigations, but that it can also take some initiative in guiding what the culture change is going to look like in the military and in offering some accountability over those culture change initiatives.
I think it's really important that it is focused not just on military sexual misconduct but on broader culture change issues, and that the agency really looks at these issues as interlocking: sexism, homophobia, gender-based violence, misogyny and ableism, all of those interlocking systems that have produced a problematic military culture. We need to address them not in silos but together. I think an agency like that could do that, hopefully.
Now, you asked me about the short term. I think the very first step would be to assemble a group of subject matter experts, as well as survivors and other veterans advocacy groups, to begin developing a proposal for what this needs to look like. I think we can start small very quickly and then, hopefully, build up to a really robust external oversight mechanism.