National Defence committee  I'd like to add something on this one, if I may. Leadership and engagement are a big piece too. The UN women, peace and security CHOD—CHOD being all the chiefs of defence of all the countries—was launched a couple of years ago, and now our chief of defence is the chair of that

National Defence committee  Yes, I can take that question. Mr. Bezan, we are trying everything you said. We are having specific events for women and are looking at women's colleges, women's events and changing our publicity. We are doing everything we can. Also, once they're in the military, we have to k

National Defence committee  If you can represent an interest, that would be awesome. Also, look at the leadership that Jackie O'Neill mentioned. Now, with everything you're doing, you realize there is a GBA or a gender perspective to it. When something comes across your desk, ask the question, “What is tha

National Defence committee  I will ask about it, but I don't know whether the number of francophone recruits is counted separately. I don't think we are there yet.

National Defence committee  That is a United Nations concept, which stems from the new women in uniform parity strategy. The mixed reaction team concept requires every mission to have a mixed reaction battalion whose ratio must be 50/50.

National Defence committee  If we decide to design a battalion as such, it must have a 50/50 ratio.

National Defence committee  I do not have the answer to that question, sorry.

National Defence committee  Of course.

National Defence committee  As I said, I don't have the statistics. Again, justice is not my field, but I'm sure we can get that information for you. At the end of the day, we take measures from the get-go. We listen to the victims. We ensure that there is separation between the perpetrators and the victim

National Defence committee  Yes, thank you. In the beginning, the Canadian Forces were in favour of integrating women, but they are now working on including women. There is a difference between integration and inclusion. Inclusion means listening to women's needs and taking into account their strengths and

National Defence committee  Yes, I just want to add that we do have 29 Canadian Armed Forces personnel deployed on UN missions right now: in South Sudan, in Mali. We also have an episodic Hercules aircraft that goes down to Africa every six months, for about a month, and provides airlift to the United Natio

National Defence committee  We are currently working with the United Nations on the concept of a mixed team. In 2021, the United Nations will require that women account for 50% of their mixed engagement teams. We are working on that concept with the United Nations to establish what those forces will be aske

National Defence committee  I'm sorry, this one is a little outside my field, but I'm sure we can take this question on notice. I know there are some initiatives targeted towards our indigenous community, and they're working, but I cannot give you any specifics. I apologize.

National Defence committee  For me, success is having more women deployed on operations. The more we can increase the quantity of women we have on deployed ops, that means we have a pool at home that is available, trained and qualified. That is success. On the leadership, we've had General Carignan, the co

National Defence committee  I think, as you said, Jackie, it is the culture. Still in Canada today, women have those gender roles and those cultural identities, and quite often they think that they can't join the CAF, and it's so wrong. I'm 125 pounds, five foot three, and I was a helicopter pilot. If I c