National Defence committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Thank you for your excellent presentation. It has actually brought out a lot of my own emotions, because I've only ever worked in male-dominated professions, and I've always been the minority. For a lot of your comments, it's been either “I totally

National Defence committee  That's helpful in terms of my own thinking. We're looking at peacekeeping missions. Sitting here for two seconds and listening to you, I understand there's a colossal number of factors that make them successful or not. There are the complexity factors. There's the culture of the

National Defence committee  Oh, I'm being cut off. Okay, thank you.

National Defence committee  Thank you to both of you for being here today; and thank you, Major-General, for your excellent presentation. I'm actually going to begin where Mr. Spengemann left off. We have a feminist foreign policy now that's been put in place. How has that impacted the type of training th

National Defence committee  Thank you. In your presentation you mentioned that at this point, the Peace Support Training Centre is providing the first two rotations of gender awareness advisers to the commander of Task Force Mali. Could you elaborate on that?

National Defence committee  Thank you. There also have been cases of sexual harassment on various different missions. What part of the training helps to make sure we talk about safety and how to be, whether it's within Canada or on our missions abroad?

National Defence committee  I have about 45 seconds left. It sounds as though we're fairly best in class in terms of our training. What's the process that ensures that we're constantly revising to make sure each of these modules continue to be best in class?

National Defence committee  Perfect. Thank you very much.

National Defence committee  Thank you. I'm new to this committee so everything fascinates me right now. Your three recommendations were to manage your meaning, figure out which part of Maslow you're trying to focus on, and then you talked about innovative tools. I'm going to continue the thread we have bee

National Defence committee  The other thing I'm curious about is that you said the UN has a very clear goal for Mali. Is it a very clear goal to create those conditions for peace? What would you say? The reason I'm asking the question, just so you understand, is that in my mind you have introduced this who

National Defence committee  That makes sense. How much time do I have?

National Defence committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. I want to say what an honour it is to have both of you here today. You have given a colossal amount of information and a lot of recommendations, and not all of them are going to be implemented overnight. I'd love to, as I'm asking questions, focus

National Defence committee  What I'm hearing from you sounds like the UN has started shifting into this new conceptual framework that you were talking about, which I think sounds great. The next area I want to talk about is what's stopping more women from joining these missions and the army. What we heard

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, and thank you for this wonderful conversation today. I have a couple of questions. As everybody knows, Canada is vying for a spot on the UN Security Council. Should we succeed, in light of the context of the conversation we're having today, what do