As I mentioned in my opening remarks, there is a mindset, both at the Department of National Defence and at Veterans Affairs Canada, that women have no place in the Canadian Forces.
I joined the forces in 1980 as an airframe technician. The trade had just been created in 1979. I was one of the 1% of women who started in this trade.
When you arrive, you have all kinds of problems, and there were allowances. Still, it was as if I didn't even have the right to be there. That's their mentality.