National Defence committee  It sounds as if you have research but haven't acted on it yet.

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair. Let me go back to my notes here. I'll direct a question to Commodore Patterson. How do women support each other to get where they want to go?

National Defence committee  Yes. It's just that I wonder whether that would be helpful in actually changing culture as well. I'm going to move to the next question, as unfortunately I have very little time. I've also worked within a large organization where we tried to increase diversity, but senior lead

National Defence committee  When did the orders start? Did they start a few years ago? Did they start five years ago? Did they start two years ago?

National Defence committee  I have just a quick comment, because I think my time is up. I just find that it goes too slowly even with orders. This is my sense about it. I also was very fortunate to be part of the trip to Mali, and 14.3% of those who are serving there are women. Below the logistics officers

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for your excellent presentations. I've worked only in male-dominated professions. It's very easy for there to be a co-opting there without really realizing it, a co-opting of thinking. It's very subtle. To what extent are senior leaders or any o

National Defence committee  Excuse me. I have less time than my colleagues. Do you think it would be a good idea if we encouraged everybody above a particular level to do an unconscious bias training session or course? Do you think it would be helpful?

National Defence committee  Thank you. Madam Deschamps, I felt anxious when you were saying that there were some immediate things you wanted to see happen right away after the report was launched. It's years later now and much of it still hasn't necessarily happened, or a lot of things have been much slowe

National Defence committee  It's to move faster on implementing the policy and the legislative changes that were recommended in your report. Thank you.

National Defence committee  Thank you so much. Thank you, Madam Deschamps and Ms. Nash, for your important contributions today. Ms. Nash, I'll start off with you. In your ideal world, what would you have wanted the response to be when you said, “You know, I have a child. I'd like to change jobs. I want t

National Defence committee  Thank you. That's important. I've only worked in male-dominated professions my entire life. The Canadian Armed Forces, for lack of better words, is definitely a male-dominated environment. We have to engage. Part of the change has to be from all of us. We can't order men to res

National Defence committee  No, I mean just in terms of being a lot more open to different options. From your perspective, there was a very clear line in terms of what could be done. How can we engage more? Maybe it's an unfair question for you. If you don't have a response, I have another question for yo

National Defence committee  Thank you. I have another couple of questions and I have limited time. I have one last question for you. I do this, too, and I have done it, in that I often go to women and automatically think that they're going to be more helpful, and that's often not the case. It's not that