Military slow to address sexual harassment problem: Senators

Now it’s time for the government and the military to listen—and to act. Failure to do so will negatively affect the operational capacity of the CAF.

Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jonathan Vance, left, and Commander Designate of the Canadian Army Jean-Marc Lanthier, pictured July 16, 2018, arriving at a Canadian Army change of command Ceremony on Parliament Hill.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SEN. GWEN BONIFACE, SEN. JEAN-GUY DAGENAIS, AND SEN. MOBINA JAFFER

May 27, 2019

PARLIAMENT HILL—In 2014, Maclean’s and L’actualité revealed that sexual assault in the military takes place with disturbing regularity—about five times per day. To its credit, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) took these reports seriously. The military hired a former Supre...

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