Status of Women committee  I am a military domestic violence survivor. I endured 15 years of violence that did end up with civilian charges against my perpetrator who was retained by the military and was allowed to continue his career despite having a criminal background in domestic violence. I'm not alone

Status of Women committee  I definitely believe that online tools can be helpful in terms of anonymity. It is extremely difficult for victims to be face to face with a stranger, trying to talk about their situation. However, again, this needs to be outside of the construct of the Canadian Armed Forces and

Status of Women committee  We are a group of, actually, five co-founders. Some are retired veterans like me, and we also have serving members. It just came together as a thing that we needed to do as survivors. We are all injured. We all have PTSD diagnoses, so day-to-day volunteering is challenging, but w

Status of Women committee  We are hoping that the training program we developed, which is based on, as I said, civilian best practices, is completely different from Operation Honour. It had its successes, but it has had, unfortunately, as discussed, so many issues that it's become a joke. This course is d

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm here as a veteran military sexual trauma survivor, a military domestic violence survivor and as a representative of the Survivor Perspectives Consulting Group, also referred to as SPCG. SPCG was recently created by a small group of military sexual tr