Anand to report to Parliament on military sexual misconduct recommendations – National | 24CA News
Defence Minister Anita Anand is about to report back to Parliament on what steps the federal government is — and isn’t — taking in response to a report launched earlier this yr that painted a damning portrait of the navy’s tradition amid what consultants have known as a sexual misconduct “crisis.”
Anand is anticipated to desk her report back to Parliament on Monday afternoon, fulfilling one of many dozens of suggestions made by former Supreme Court of Canada justice Louise Arbour when she launched her long-anticipated report into the tradition of the Canadian navy in May.
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“As a first step, the Minister should inform Parliament by the end of the year of the recommendations in this Report that she does not intend to implement,” Arbour’s report acknowledged in May.
The evaluation was formally launched a yr earlier than that — in May 2021 — in response to unique reporting by Global News into allegations of sexual misconduct on the highest ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Global News first dropped at mild allegations in February 2021 of sexual misconduct towards senior leaders within the Canadian Armed Forces — the primary of dozens of unique studies into such allegations and the navy’s dealing with of them over the previous 18 months.
Arbour’s extremely anticipated report described the navy as an establishment that’s basically out of sync with the values of Canadian society.
In it, Arbour warned that the highest ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces are “incapable” of recognizing the “deficient” elements of a tradition that preserve sexual misconduct and abuse of energy entrenched.
The report made 48 suggestions, charting out a brand new path to basically change the way in which navy sexual misconduct allegations are reported and dealt with, and to revive confidence within the Canadian Forces, which is struggling to recruit new members amid the controversy.
Ottawa says it has already begun motion on 17 of them.
— with information from Global News’ Amanda Connolly and Aaron D’Andrea
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