National Defence committee  I have a point of order. What is its relevance?

National Defence committee  Okay. Thank you. Minister, just to your comments, we had a chance to visit a UN peacekeeping school in Dakar. We met with a number of women police officers from right across northern Africa who were there. They were sharing knowledge with each other about some of the challenges

National Defence committee  Thank you. I appreciate that. There is a motion before this committee, and if we get a chance to, it would be really great if we would be able to get some more recommendations. How many minutes do I have left?

National Defence committee  Oh, well then I want to say thanks so much.

National Defence committee  Thank you so much, Minister, for your presentation and for being here today. I was very blessed and honoured to be part of the trip to Senegal and Mali and to get first-hand experience of our operation there. I think part of the story that we haven't quite said is that our being

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  There was some trauma happening in your family and you just thought you needed to do something different, and that seemed to be something that appealed to you. You joined the navy. Is that right?

National Defence committee  Did you meet any other indigenous women at all?

National Defence committee  Do you think it would have been helpful if there had been a way for you to identify other indigenous women within the armed forces, so you could form some sort of a network to support each other?

National Defence committee  What would that look like? Do you think the Canadian Armed Forces should be offering that as a program? What could that look like in providing that way of bringing people together?

National Defence committee  Okay. Thank you. I'm very curious. I think there are a lot of amazing recommendations here. I think it would be helpful to have an indigenous woman go out to certain places to help with the recruiting of other indigenous women, because they're out there, to say that this is thei

National Defence committee  Thanks very much.

National Defence committee  Thank you to everyone for their excellent presentations. I'd like to direct my first question to Ms. Pope. You might not know the answer to this, so don't feel fussed about it. I was just curious, as you were speaking, if you know how many indigenous women are actually in the

National Defence committee  Okay. I think I'll definitely look into this to see whether we gather that data, because I think it's important for us to do so. Why did you join? Often people, particularly when they're young, join because they have a sibling or know someone or have a group of friends who are g

National Defence committee  I appreciate that. Again, I've only been in the business and the political worlds. In my opinion, we actually don't have.... It's not as developed as it is for men. Whether it's networks or supporting each other automatically, it hasn't been as developed in the two areas that I'