Status of Women committee  When I was in basic training, I called the Canadian Armed Forces sexual response centre to ask them to help me. All they did at that time was the same thing that the ombudsman would do, which was to direct me back to the mechanisms within the Canadian Armed Forces that would deal

Status of Women committee  It was a circle. You're always being sent back to the person who is trying to...to incidents where you're dealing with exploitation and harassment. It's still that way. I've asked them, and I've been following along with the changes to see how it's been evolving. The sexual res

Status of Women committee  This was the first time. I was an eternal optimist. I figured that if the Marie Deschamps report says it is a hostile sexualized culture, surely they're going to do something and follow through on what's being said, and they're going to stop this from happening, because this is C

Status of Women committee  I started the process four and a half years ago, and it's still going on.

Status of Women committee  It was mid-2015; sorry about that.

Status of Women committee  When I first experienced harassment or, let's say, the military trying to have me declared mentally incompetent for complaining about its hostile sexualized behaviour, I filed a human rights complaint and went through the internal military procedures. That would be like filing a

Status of Women committee  Yes. They assigned me an assisting officer, who then helped me to write the documents in the way they wanted them written, but they wouldn't allow me to put in the documents the issue of the commanding officer being abusive towards me. They were all health care professionals. Hea

Status of Women committee  Yes, or LGBTQ members or anyone who's different....

Status of Women committee  Yes, because of the discrimination, they need to be protected from the group mentality in the Canadian Armed Forces. To answer your question, after they did the first failed investigation, they did another harassment investigation. They made a determination of 18 situations that

Status of Women committee  Right.

Status of Women committee  I would start with what the Marie Deschamps report said because she had really excellent recommendations as to how to restructure. Those recommendations are there. The idea of where the sexual misconduct centre reports to.... Did the report say that it would be with the reports

Status of Women committee  So they would have to have a reporting structure in that area, where they're reporting directly to the Minister of Defence, as opposed to the chain of command in order to ensure that the harassment policies and procedures are being followed through. I would look at how they are d

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  No, I can't afford one. I'm a regular Canadian from Souris, Prince Edward Island, and I don't have the funds to be able—

Status of Women committee  —to afford a legal team.