National Defence committee  If I could just add one final word, Mr. Chair, on that. The idea of keeping track of what is occurring—complaints and redresses of grievance and the like.... We do track those things, all of them, very carefully, because of course the intent is always to make sure that if someth

National Defence committee  I would offer to you that we're not concerned about that happening. We have a good progression of what is going to be taking place, with both the hearings and the admissibility for other things like courts martial, depending on what the offence may be. I want to just add that I

National Defence committee  We'll undertake to do that, then, and come back.

National Defence committee  I haven't personally reviewed that document. I'm not sure if my colleagues have.

National Defence committee  At this point, all I can actually say is that we'll take it back and have a look at it. We'd have to see the entire context to be able to understand what that might mean. For the most part, we have methods of appeal for just about everything. If a person feels they've had a wron

National Defence committee  Can I hop in on that question as well? Another thing that perhaps needs to be understood is that people have the impression—and I'd like to set it straight—that if you're identified as having a mental illness, somehow your career is over. Nothing could be further from the truth.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. First, I am Lieutenant-General Chuck Lamarre. I'm commander of military personnel command, the organization that recruits, trains and does the care, service, pay and so on and so forth for all of our members. W

National Defence committee  The whole idea of how we're going to be recruiting visible minorities, aboriginal and women—as we were talking about earlier on—has targets assigned to it. We can give examples of concrete increases in the number of women. Of the first-year cadets at RMC this year, 25% are women.

National Defence committee  We're coming to that one as well. One of the things we're doing is measuring within each of our recruiting initiatives which ones give us more bang for the buck. We're finding that some of the initiatives we've done—we're doing an analysis of that problem—are getting low rates

National Defence committee  We're looking at that journey from start to finish, and that's how we're referring to it. The journey, the cheminement, from the moment that you get attracted to come in, to start to click on the website, all the way through to the time that you transition out of the Canadian Arm

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Minister. The funds will be used to automate the system. The automation is already under way, and it will get us to a higher level. More specifically, the beneficiaries will be the members of the reserve. At the moment, we are moving forward to make sure that th

National Defence committee  Thank you, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm the commander of military personnel command. It will be our responsibility to do full implementation including looking at all the records to make sure that the records of those people who were released from the Canadian Forces at that t

National Defence committee  We have the resources.

National Defence committee  Thanks very much. With the announcement of the policy, the CDS gave us clear direction, which we in turn within the military personnel recruiting group have put out into a planning cycle. We will have a very specific operation that will look at reducing the recruiting time from