Thank you, Chair.
I want to thank all of the witnesses, but specifically Ms. Doucet and Ms. Smith, who had to share their personal experiences, which we all understand is very difficult.
My first question is for Ms. Smith. It appears as though we opened up the Canadian Armed Forces to women and they were plopped in with no support mechanisms, no systems, no checks on how biology would come into play and no complaint methods—a real “cluster-F”, if you want to call it that. Pardon my language, but I really feel for you. What you went through in a very short period of time was unacceptable.
You gave five great, concrete recommendations. Can you maybe help us more? Based on your own experience, how would specially trained case managers who deal specifically with sexual trauma be helpful?
Also, with regard to medical records and having to repeat the trauma over and over when you go to a different case manager or when a file goes from CAF to VAC, if you could make some recommendations or some solid suggestions, that would be very helpful so that we can make those changes going forward.