Status of Women committee  Thank you for your question. Unfortunately, I'm not well placed to answer it. I retired from the forces in 2012. I believe General Carignan would be better placed to answer that question. I can speak only to the training that I received during my time, which is now quite outdated.

Status of Women committee  Yes, I'm fine. Thank you for your concern.

Status of Women committee  I told him not to do anything, because I couldn't remember the precise details of the assault. I said that I would modify my behaviour and who I could trust, as though I had been raped by a superior officer in my unit. He accepted my answer and we never spoke of it again. Four years later, while deployed in Afghanistan, I was investigated without my knowledge by military police and my chain of command for having a consensual sexual relationship with a U.S. officer who was not in my unit but of the same rank.

Status of Women committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair. As I was saying, I was assaulted at a house party. I don't know exactly what happened to me because everything that evening went black, but I do know where I woke up and the state I was in when I woke up. Standing over my gurney when I was taken to the emergency room were two male MPs who convinced me to have a rape kit done.

Status of Women committee  Thank you for having me. With the brief time I have, I'll try to do three things: first, introduce myself and how I found myself here today; second, identify what I believe to be the root cause of the CAF sexualized environment identified by Justice Deschamps in 2015; and third, discuss a way forward.

Status of Women committee  Would you like me to start from the beginning or from where I left off?

Status of Women committee  Great. Thank you.