Status of Women committee  There are some policies that I outlined in my second grievance that I think would make a really, really big difference. One of them is not taking away our flights the moment we give birth, so changing things around the next of kin. I was never asking for my baby's seat to be pa

Status of Women committee  They don't at all. Right. In that case, and in my case, if there were a policy for the BPSO to allow someone who comes to them for help to switch trades.... There are a hundred different trades in the military. There are places for everyone. I just happened to be very ambitious

Status of Women committee  I've heard that some seagoing vessels have schedules that are, for example, three months on, three months off. That would work, because I could have sent my son to my parents for three months and sailed, and then come back and spent three months with my son. It's a big sacrifice.

Status of Women committee  Yes. The first grievance I filed was about a woman named Karen Bellehumeur, and the person who took that grievance on to solve it was her friend who had his office right next to hers. When I had my grievance meeting, I had to wait outside their offices while they were laughing, j

Status of Women committee  Actually, I don't know. It's the MFRC building that had the day care in Esquimalt, and it was a very, very big building. They kept one of the day care rooms empty so that people in the community could rent it out for birthday parties on the weekend. Because we're all paying $70

Status of Women committee  Absolutely, yes.

Status of Women committee  I'm concerned about the quotas—and Julie touched on it a little bit—that if we're just trying to increase the number of women in the military, there are still a lot of traps for them and a lot of really bad places they can go. If we can just get in there and change some of the po

Status of Women committee  I think it's important to recognize that there are nearly 70,000 DND employees, if I'm not wrong, and only a few thousand are actually going to be snipers or special forces. There are literally tens of thousands of people in the military who are in support roles and work office j

Status of Women committee  Yes. I mean, we learned how to fold our clothes, pack our bags and take care of our stuff, which is different. As far as dehumanizing soldiers, we're not at war, so I think it's different. There are so many administrative roles that the training is office training.