Status of Women committee  We have a petty officer who is a physician assistant, and then we'll have a medical tech as the assistant to him. The highest rank in the medical is generally a petty officer. I think they're looking at maybe making them officers, but.... For mental health, I think that if you're

Status of Women committee  As for just me personally, not me as a member of the Canadian Armed Forces or in.... There are other countries that have inspectors general, which are completely aside from the minister of defence. We could put the sexual misconduct response centre under there. We could put our o

Status of Women committee  I would say that females are a minority, and especially when you narrow it down to a certain trade and certain unit, it's going to be very obvious who it is. If it's something that's happening on a ship, as soon as we try to have confidentiality and we start closed-door sessions

Status of Women committee  I'll take that a little bit. I would say that it's not taken the same way, and that because you don't get that diagnosis, you don't get the same supports as someone who is diagnosed with PTSD. As well, there's a reluctance to be diagnosed, because for all that we've made progre

Status of Women committee  The victims wear it a lot more than the perpetrators. Quite often the perpetrators are allowed to continue their careers unhindered, whereas the victims just can't. It's led to many victims not coming forward. Being on a ship, we have unit disciplinary investigations that happe

Status of Women committee  I'm not sure. If it were held, it probably would be held by the medical technicians in the sick bay, but I'm not sure. I don't know.

Status of Women committee  If you're prosecuting something under just the Criminal Code of Canada, within our court systems you can plead guilty to a lesser charge. That is increased when you're in a military court system because it's not just criminal codes that you can plead to. You can plead down to a N

Status of Women committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. First, I want to say that this issue is too important to get wrong. For many years, we have been embracing doing more with less, trying to find efficiencies where we could. I feel we've pretty much reached the point where we can’t really do much more wi