Thank you very much for the question.
There's a long story of how women came to be accepted in the CAF. From my research, it was not always welcome. The military had to be told to take women into its ranks and all military occupations. I will be honest. There was resistance. Therefore, assimilation was more important than inclusion.
That's where we're seeing the difference now. It's not about assimilation. I don't have to change who I am in order to belong. I can belong as who I am: a woman, a mother, etc. That is the switch we did, I would say, in 2010: Inclusion is the key, not assimilation.