National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, maybe I can start, and then I can perhaps turn to my colleague Ms. Tremblay, as it pertains to questions related to maintenance contracts and the like. Certainly the member is 100% correct with respect to having equipment to train upon being an important part of force

National Defence committee  Perhaps I'll let Ms. Tremblay speak to the initiatives to try to improve spare parts going forward first, and then I can perhaps speak to any other training elements after that.

National Defence committee  I don't have anything else to add to that.

National Defence committee  I would say it is still a work in progress as we go forward. We are building capabilities to work towards the culture change we see is needed. When we think about some of the programs we've put in place to promote that, we talk about the challenges we face around the ethical cir

National Defence committee  I would say that people join the Canadian Armed Forces for very different reasons. Everybody in the Canadian Armed Forces feels a very strong sense of service and a sense of the obligation they signed up for—what they're doing for their fellow Canadians, going forward. That proba

National Defence committee  We all think that space is—and I don't mean to be punny—the next frontier, but it truly is, as one of the domains, an area we need to lean into. Often we don't think about how dependent on space we are to live our day-to-day lives when you check your watch or when the GPS in you

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. Certainly I would say that for us, on values and ethics.... There was the recent revitalization of Trusted to Serve, which is the foundation of the ethos and ethics of the Canadian Armed Forces. I believe it was back in 2022. It is the bas

National Defence committee  Our current projections are that we are not yet at the point where we're going to break even this year, if I can make that statement—the point where we are recruiting as many people as would be leaving through attrition. As you're aware, our efforts in this area have to go acro

National Defence committee  I think we've been examining the impacts of the many transfers that can happen in a person's career as they move from position to position, first to gain the experiences they need to be able to do their jobs, but also to help them gain new experiences to advance as they move up i

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I think I may have missed a part in the middle of the question. I apologize if I'm not exactly hitting the mark on your question. We had a bit of a delay in transmission there. When it comes to mental health and to removing the stigma associated with mental health, it

National Defence committee  Certainly we have health promotion programs within the Canadian Armed Forces. We have programs—the road to mental wellness, the road to mental health—that are all about seeing and recognizing and that everybody should know about. It's not just about somebody who just may feel lik

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. Let me say before I respond to your question directly that the results of the survey are of great concern to us. We take it very, very seriously. It's really important to us that we actually get these results from the StatsCan survey, beca

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. How do I follow that? I think what needs to become endemic in the way we consider and deliberate, as we move forward, is engagement. This engagement, as Ms. Arbour mentioned earlier in her testimony, is beyond just among ourselves, internally. I

National Defence committee  I'm afraid I can't respond with any specificity, because I'm not aware of the specifics. That type of intimidation of somebody who brings forward a complaint is certainly not acceptable. In those instances, where it appears that complainants are being intimidated or harassed, it

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I'm not sure who the honourable member is referring to as “they” in the circumstances.