Status of Women committee  If possible, I would like to reply in English. It will be easier for me.

Status of Women committee  Concerning the seven remaining recommendations, we are well under way and almost at a point of achieving them. I think the question, though, is, when do we achieve them. What is very important to us is that these are complex recommendations. It isn't as though we put a paper in p

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We are working on the cultural change strategy, but rather than just do it in a silo as it relates to sexual misconduct, we are trying to link in to all the other initiatives going on within the department so that when we come up with a cultural change strategy—becaus

Status of Women committee  Research has been done on the barriers to recruiting and retention. It doesn't sit within the Operation Honour domain—we can provide you with information also on that afterwards—but it looks at the reasons people leave. What has been interesting is that some of the reasons people

Status of Women committee  The other thing we know, because I'm also the defence champion for women—I've just shared that with you now—is that one of the other key issues that came out in retention research was a need for a mentorship program that is gender-specific. One thing we have put in, through our e

Status of Women committee  Most certainly we'll take that question on notice.

Status of Women committee  I think I was talking about the “Respect in the CAF” workshop, which was noted in the OAG report as definitely a very valuable approach to attitude and belief-changing. Respect in the CAF is facilitated by expert facilitators who are all civilians. It's a day-long process where t

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  I can certainly talk from my experience, but I think it's very important that we have the evidence, the data, in order to really know where it comes from. One thing in 2015 that didn't exist.... It really was kind of “I think that's about where we are and that's what the situati

Status of Women committee  As you know, this is a problem society faces and we are a microcosm of that society. The challenge is being able to articulate what that change needs to be. The one thing we do know is that everything we do is founded on respect and dignity. You have to go back to basics, as the

Status of Women committee  I think we have to start at the basic level. The reason for my comment on the manual was that if you say it's another policy, it's actually not a policy. It's a useful tool and a guide. There is a difference. This is something that's used at the coal face, and I do hear that ever

Status of Women committee  Thank you. I used to have a unit in Comox. I love Comox. This is actually a two-part response. We have the campaign plan, but we're also developing that prevention strategy and cultural change strategy we talked about. We are in the early stages of a pan-Canadian Armed Forces c

Status of Women committee  I promise you I'm not try to evade your questions, but again that would be outside my current portfolio. Very generically, there is something called the journey that you may have heard about, which is looking at the whole life cycle of a person who wishes to join the Canadian Arm

Status of Women committee  I'm so sorry. I'm not able to comment on this specifically. Very generically, the expectation is to use the processes that exist within the system first and then move forward to human rights. Alain, are you able to provide a greater comment? May I just share with my colleague?

Status of Women committee  I would like to refer this over to Mr. Gauthier because the integrated conflict and complaint management is a good illustration of a system that shows you, not only that have we taken aspects out but also how we educate who has the rights for what within the system, including the