Thank you for that.
One of the things that I struggle with is the fact that we in Canada still have very low numbers of female service members. Those numbers are still low, and no matter what they seem to want to do, it's not actually resulting in more women joining the forces. When I look at the outcomes for female veterans, it seems to me that there might be a cycle here that we should be considering.
We saw in your research that most female veterans do not stay for the 20 years. That means, of course, that when they leave, they do not have that resource to help support them. What I saw in your research is that male veterans would have the 20 years and have their pension plus their employment, which would allow for better outcomes. Female veterans do not have that.
Based on that, is there any information you can give us? Is there a particular trend? Why are women not staying in our service?