Canadian Military Culture Reform Report Reveals Ongoing Struggles A new report released Thursday reveals the Canadian Armed Forces are falling short in their ambitious efforts to transform military culture, with significant challenges persisting despite high-level commitments to change The independent review, conducted by former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour, highlights concerning gaps between leadership promises and ground-level implementation
Junior Members: The Key to Lasting Culture Change - Canada. ca In order to create a top-down, bottom-informed plan for culture change, most units within the 6 Canadian Combat Support Brigade (6 CCSB) created surveys geared towards identifying challenges with unit CAF culture
Eichler and Brown_final - Mount Saint Vincent University Drawing on critical theories and empirical evidence, we identify six intersecting root causes that shape military culture in ways that enable discrimination and hostility towards certain groups These root causes are patriarchy, colonialism, white supremacy, heteronormativity, ableism, and classism
Culture Change Beyond Misconduct: Addressing Systemic Barriers The technological advances of adversaries’ militaries require the CAF to undergo profound digital transformation and the increased incidence and severity of natural disasters in Canada are putting extreme pressures on the military to be operationally effective across a very diverse set of missions
Culture Change is Difficult but Necessary We wrote this letter to demonstrate the need for the CAF to change its culture, to demythologize existing efforts and the broader conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion, to consider some of the resistance to culture change, and to explain the importance of academic exploration in democratic civil-mil-itary relations
The Arbour Report and Supporting Effective Cultural Reform in the . . . In pursuit of genuine and effective cultural improvement, the prevailing political climate must be transformed to create the space and time for extensive and comprehensive evaluation of the Arbour Report in light of previous similar external studies
Conduct and Culture Change: Comprehensive Implementation Plan In December 2022, the Minister of National Defence presented a Report to Parliament on Culture Change Reforms in response to former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour’s recommendations
Canadian Militray journal Canada’s military faces a complex, multi-layered problem with its culture Over the past three decades, numerous media stories,1 external and internal reports,2 class action testimonies,3 and first-person accounts,4 have brought the problem to light