National Defence committee  Right now, as far as I can tell, there has been the creation of new positions—not necessarily a reallocation of funding in terms of training, but just a request to emphasize the gender piece in existing training programs, which don't necessarily have budgetary implications. In my

National Defence committee  Absolutely. One of the key efforts that we see in Russia's information operations is to undermine the public support for the presence of Canadian Armed Forces in Latvia, and I suppose of the entire multinational battalion. It's doing so by basically trying to undermine the cred

National Defence committee  Yes, thank you for your question. There are 11% women in NATO's armed forces, but when you look at the deployed women, it's down to 6%.

National Defence committee  Six, yes; I think there is a challenge there in terms of not only understanding that gap between the number of women who are in the national armed forces and then how many are deployed on—

National Defence committee  The numbers I've received from Canada conflict right now. I've reached out to a third source to have that number confirmed.

National Defence committee  It was hovering around 15%, which would be quite high.

National Defence committee  I think one of the main cultural challenges is that not all 29 member states have the same definition of what gender means, or how it might be relevant to their work. I think that a second challenge is related to the fact that some officials view gender as the specialized purvie

National Defence committee  Good afternoon, everyone. Mr. Chair, deputy chairs, hon. members and members of the committee, thank you. I'm delighted to be here with you. It is my pleasure to be here today to testify. I am really delighted by the topic. Before I go any further, I just want to state that,