Status of Women committee  Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Ms. Perron. I'm going to say it as bluntly as I can: We need to bring the military into 2019. We need to do that by recognizing that it is broken in many places, and it needs to be fixed.

Status of Women committee  Certainly. We held high hopes, Ms. Harder, after Prime Minister Trudeau declared that this was a really horrible situation for Laura. We were very, very hopeful that things were going to change. Unfortunately, we didn't see anything, so I wrote in September 2017 following the s

Status of Women committee  I certainly agree with Ms. Nash. From what I, Ms. Nash and my firm have been through, we have to do something about that, because that's not justice. It's not helping us, and it's certainly not helping Ms. Nash. Ms. Nash has been put into economic, physical and social peril as

Status of Women committee  I think it's blatant discrimination.

Status of Women committee  I think this happens on a threefold level. I think that the individual CAF senior officers have to be involved with this. I think we have to have the Canadian Human Rights Commission involved to understand the blockage that's being created. Quite frankly, we need an excellent hum

Status of Women committee  Certainly. May I just say the third, and then I can expand upon it?

Status of Women committee  The third way is to really pay wholehearted attention to medical care for individuals within the CAF—women in the CAF—who are much more likely to commit suicide than the general population. Thank you.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Ms. Harder. I would because I actually did quite a bit of work to understand it. The issue with policies is that they are defined for two-parent, traditional families and not for the single parent or the non-traditional family. That needs to be recognized. T

Status of Women committee  I do, actually. Thank you very much, Rachel. I certainly can tell you that I've thought quite a lot about this. I think there are three ways we can fix the problems, and I welcome the opportunity to advise in terms of what I've seen. First, I believe we need to overhaul the grie

Status of Women committee  Honourable member, it would probably be more than that. I would say get rid of paragraph 41.1(a) in its entirety. I would be as blunt as saying that. People could have the choice of whether they wanted to go through the grievance system or whether they wanted to have their case h

Status of Women committee  Certainly, Karen. Thank you. Alone at CFB Esquimalt, Ms. Nash faced a culture of discrimination and harassment because she was a single mother. She was ultimately removed from the six-month long MARS course with only three days remaining because, according to the training review

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Karen. Good morning, members of the committee and distinguished guests. Thank you very much for inviting me to provide testimony today on this very important issue pertaining to the treatment of women within the Department of National Defence. I have been practising