Yes, I do. I powerfully believe in the CAF's capacity to change, because I know that so many of the strong leaders who are still there take this issue extremely seriously, not just women and men, but my peer group, which is now at the commanding officer and subunit level of command, and they are fiercely determined to bring about change now.
The response to these allegations and to testimony like my own has gotten far different responses from men and women in uniform than the Deschamps report in 2015. I believe that CAF has now accepted.... At least the senior leadership has accepted the issue as a legitimate issue and is putting forward real steps to make change in a way that I do not believe was the case even three months ago, the appointment of General Carignan being one of the steps.
The thing I would say most immediately is that General Carignan talks about all of the necessary institutional changes that need to happen, which do take time. I believe that my friends, the subunit commanders, the commanding officers, need to be empowered to organically take steps to improve the culture within their own units and subunits, and they need to feel empowered to do so by the chain of command.
The CAF is going to change itself. It won't be an external report that changes the CAF, and it needs to happen not just from the top down, but from the bottom up. It's a lot easier to happen from the bottom up in a hierarchical organization when you have leadership that empowers you and makes the mission clear.