National Defence committee  We are developing currently a way to do just that, via various consultation groups inviting specific stakeholders and having regular touchpoints with them—to consult. They would be external to Defence. Internal to Defence, we have also our defence advisory groups, who provide a

National Defence committee  Thank you Mr. Chair, for the question. Our programs are currently delivering what we call Respect in the CAF, which focuses on giving our participants better awareness about what sexual misconduct is, how it happens and how they can manage these situations in a better way. We ha

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, we will take on the recommendations. We will build mechanisms to measure what we are doing, as well, which was another weakness of the implementation of Op Honour. We will have mechanisms in place to measure the effects of what we are doing so that we can monitor pro

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, I cannot speak to the particulars and the facts of the cases, but what I can say is that we have to make sure that the same rules apply to everybody. This is part of the work that we will be doing: to clarify these rules and policies for everybody. This is the testim

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, I can tell you that I have been very touched and affected by both Dr. West's experience and the many other experiences we have heard. I am not taking this lightly. I want to drive the appropriate change that will allow us to not have these cases in the future. We are

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, that's exactly what I meant in my opening statement about the gap between the reality and the values that we are espousing and want to see happening. We definitely have a lot of work to do in that sense. This is exactly what I mean by bridging that gap and ensuring t

Status of Women committee  We're going to be building on a lot of work that has been done in actioning the 10 recommendations from the Deschamps report, so I'm not going to start from scratch. A lot of initiatives and recommendations have been launched, and we will continue that work. I'll mention recommen

Status of Women committee  Again, a lot of these recommendations have been actioned and moved forward. However, there is still a lot of work to be done, so I'm going to be moving on it. Also, we need to put a plan together to phase this work and move it along. Right now, what I need to do is make that pla

Status of Women committee  I started to be informed at the end of March that we were thinking of creating this organization, when I was coming back from leave after my Iraq deployment. We had discussions.

Status of Women committee  Yes, and—

Status of Women committee  No, this is not done yet. This is what I want to get approval for at the end of the month so that we can confirm the mandate and then move into the structure that will support this mandate.

Status of Women committee  Yes, of course. No problem.

Status of Women committee  Madam Chair, it's a very important question, because we will need to be resourced to do our work properly. I can assure you that I have received a lot of support from my colleagues and from the DM and the CDS, and we are determined to push this change forward. As we speak, I am

Status of Women committee  Certainly. This is all linked to confirming the mandate, but the way I see it, some of the various groups that perform duties across DND, for example, on human rights and ethics, do all belong to different organizations within DND. The integrated centres of complaints and plans

Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. The leeway we will have will be confirmed and determined in detail over the next two months. We just made the announcement. So we need to get organized and make sure we are clear on our mandate. I intend to have the mandate approved by the end of M