“We need to do better”……..That’s the message being delivered to members of the Canadian Armed Forces in the wake of a report of sexual misconduct in the military.
The Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jonathon Vance, who calls the Stats Canada survey sobering, says he’s more motivated than ever.
The report reveals women members of the Armed Forces were four times more likely to be sexually assaulted with unwanted touching to be the most common form. 59 per cent of respondents say they did not report any such incident to a higher authority.
79 per cent of the Regular Forces saw, heard or were personally targeted by sexualised behaviour with sexual jokes the most common type.
