Obviously, I'm a veteran. I can say without question that CAF has made quite significant efforts to include stakeholders and engaged people, and it has held a number of town halls and stakeholder engagements—almost too many—which brings up a whole pile of issues.
For people like us who are trying to help, how many times can we keep being asked to be part of these? There's an emotional labour for us to be part of these all the time as well.
Again, to me, to some degree, it comes back to the importance.... When we look at other countries, we see that they have standardized external advisory groups. People apply for it; they get screened for it—there are no conflicts of interest—they get honorariums if they need them, so that the burden isn't on all the same people to do this kind of work voluntarily. Having said that, I must admit, CPCC has done so much work over this last bit to the point where, again, as a physician, I worry about the burnout of the people involved. Things are changing.
If I can again be a little brutal, I think we are at a pivot point. We really are at a pivot point now where we understand enough and are far enough along. We really need to start integrating men into this and stop having the women be the only voice and the only inclusion and be in charge of these “pink roles”.
We can't fix this without the men. We cannot fix this without the men being allies, and the men in the locker rooms when they are alone, saying, “Dude, that ain't cool,” and, “You gotta stop it.” Until that happens, we're not going to go forward.