Status of Women committee  Again, the way the survey was conducted, it was done for a homogenous group. It was a qualitative data survey. They were going for numbers. If there weren't enough women who committed suicide, they wouldn't be able to see the needs. I would be shocked if you ever get enough wome

Status of Women committee  On the first question, no, we don't provide that but we do have some people with a legal background who do, and links to people who can provide it if people are willing to pay for it. Absolutely, you should get a legal counsel. The U.S. went that way. When the bill, which is the

Status of Women committee  I would say it's the combination of so many factors. We talk about a male-dominated working environment, yes, but people who join the military are extremely young. I was 18. Some people are even 16. You're really young, uneducated and very naive at this age. You're going to an is

Status of Women committee  Considering there's already an idea of having more women, because obviously that would eventually make some change, I think it would be to have a standard, a little like the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, to push the agenda on certain things. Right now, just

Status of Women committee  Unfortunately, this is a fairly common situation. A lot of people see the action of what happened as the trauma, but there's a neglect of looking at what we call the sanctuary trauma, which is the way you get treated after it happened. This is not necessarily unique to the milita

Status of Women committee  Are you asking about preventing incidents or preventing additional sanctuary trauma?

Status of Women committee  I would say that there's a lot of push maybe to put women in places without necessarily thinking about their safety. For example, the gender advisers are looking at the civil society and how safe they will be when the military people come in, but are they looking at the people in

Status of Women committee  Hello. I would like to thank the committee for the opportunity to present today. I will be sharing my views as a former Canadian Armed Forces servicewoman, a military sexual trauma survivor and a founder of the group It's Just 700. It's Just 700 was built as a result of the onli

National Defence committee  I think the way they can provide, I'll say, more teeth is to enforce that any person in the chain of command that did summary hearings should have to write a report of what happened, and the victim and the accused should also give their input about how they felt they were treated

National Defence committee  Which one was that, sorry?

National Defence committee  What was that one about?

National Defence committee  I think it's about the request. It's not the whole thing, but the part referring to it being on request should be removed. Victim liaison officers should be given automatically; it shouldn't be done at the request of the victim, because they won't know to request them.

National Defence committee  I wouldn't be focused on changing the culture more than focusing on changing the procedures and the leadership voice at this point. The culture will follow. If you have process people first, they may stumble and may not agree with it, but they'll do it. Eventually the next person

National Defence committee  Also some tracking, because of the relocations. People are frequently relocating. If you put this in the chain of command and then within that there's a posting of A, B and C, that case is left in limbo. The other person comes in and has to start again to learn the facts and ever

National Defence committee  If JAG is the one that wants to delegate it, I think they should be responsible to ensure it's done properly.