Public Accounts committee  The deputy is correct that there were growing pains from the outset, and certainly I inherited a lot of that when I started in May of 2017. You know, a lot of it was systemic in terms of the division of roles and responsibilities of the two organizations. Some of it is also due t

Public Accounts committee  At present, collecting a report is an official function. There are specific legal requirements for what needs to be in the report, how they need to be safeguarded and things like that. The mechanism we've set up is that we have a military police officer embedded within our centre

Public Accounts committee  Yes, that's absolutely true. When callers contact the centre, we essentially leave it up to them in terms of how much or how little they want to tell us about their circumstance and their personal information. Sometimes people choose not to give us names. Quite frequently, they c

Public Accounts committee  I think it's absolutely true that the more affected people, the complainants, are included in the process, allowed to participate, to receive information and to provide information to have their views taken into consideration, the better it is for them, the more empowering it is,

Public Accounts committee  Yes, I could just speak a little bit about the data. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I'm aware of some of the trends in the data. To respond to your question, what we do find is that the primary age group that's being targeted is that 19- to 25-year-old group, and th

Public Accounts committee  I'll let you know.

National Defence committee  Thank you for giving me an opportunity to speak today as part of your study on diversity in the Canadian Armed Forces. I am pleased to be here to give you an update on the evolution of the sexual misconduct response centre, as well as a snapshot of the projects my team and I are

National Defence committee  I think that we need to continue to make very clear progress on the OAG recommendations, for example. I think that we need to do a better job of marketing the good-news stories and the progress we are making. We certainly see this reality at our centre. What most people hear abou

National Defence committee  The only thing I would add is that you're right that culture and leadership are important. Those are critical organizational factors that relate to sexual harassment in the workplace. However, there are a number of other factors that are related as well. For example, we can't l

National Defence committee  I'm not sure whether it was unwillingness per se. I don't know what to attribute the fact to. The fact is that Madam Deschamps, when she did her review in 2015, recommended that an independent centre be established and that it be tasked with a wide variety of responsibilities rel

National Defence committee  That predated me. That probably would have been the deputy and the CDF at the time, I'm assuming. The two organizations have been required to work in close collaboration, essentially, to ensure this priority is addressed. The Auditor General came in and essentially made the same

National Defence committee  Yes. He recommended that there should essentially be a transfer of responsibilities from the CAF side of the house to the sexual misconduct response centre and that CAF should make more use of the expertise that they have, both within the centre and with external experts outside

National Defence committee  I would only be speculating.

National Defence committee  Whether it was a cultural factor that they didn't want to reach out or whether it was simply.... What I've certainly noticed working with CAF is that they're very task oriented and they very much have a culture of taking care of their own, so I think that they applied themselves

National Defence committee  They do. I'm confident in that.