Defence Minister Anita Anand said on Dec. 13 she hopes the culture change she is overseeing in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) will last “our lifetimes” as she tabled her department’s report in Parliament in response to recommendations made last spring by former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour.
“It’s not just morally right, it’s operationally necessary,” Anand said about the change as she spoke to reporters in Ottawa.
Anand remarked that Arbour’s report had been released in May this year and that a few month’s later she was able to present a “full fledged roadmap” of how the Department of National Defence (DND) is going to implement the recommendations….