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Canadian Armed Forces progress report addressing inappropriate sexual behaviour : Rapport d'étape des Forces armées canadiennes sur la lutte contre les comportements sexuels inappropriés

30 Jan 2016

In the days following the submission of the External Review Report on 27 March 2015, the leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces accepted the Report’s first recommendation: to acknowledge the existence of the problem. [...] As identified by Mme Deschamps, “The time is right for the leadership of the Canadian Armed Forces to tackle 9 the problem of sexual harassment and assault.” Lieutenant General Whitecross, as the Chief of Military Personnel, continues to provide strategic direction to the Strategic Response Team in collaboration with the Canadian Armed Forces chain of command to coordinate the implementation of th [...] To address harmful and inappropriate sexual behaviour across the institution, the Canadian Armed Forces must fully understand the problem before it can be addressed – thus the immediate task for the institution is to understand the nature of the issue and grasp the scope and complexity of harmful and inappropriate sexual behaviour. [...] The operation order was followed by a comprehensive communications campaign that began with all senior leaders being brought together to hear consistent, clear and direct information about the mission and the action plan from the Chief of the Defence Staff and the Canadian Forces Chief Warrant Officer, the three Environmental Commanders, and the Chief of Military Personnel (concurrently, the Comma [...] Any form of harmful and inappropriate sexual behaviour is a threat to the morale and operational readiness of the Canadian Armed Forces, undermines good order and discipline, is inconsistent with the values of the profession of arms and the ethical principles of Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces, and is wrong.
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Pages
34
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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