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TRANSCRIPTION/TRANSCRIPTION EVENT/ÉVÉNEMENT Transcription Prepared by Media Q Inc TRANSCRIPTION/TRANSCRIPTION EVENT/ÉVÉNEMENT Transcription prepared by Media Q Inc. exclusively for Halifax International Security Forum DATE/DATE: November 24, 2019 10:30 a.m. (AST) LOCATION/ENDROIT: Westin Nova Scotian Hotel, 1181 Hollis St., HALIFAX, NS PRINCIPAL(S)/PRINCIPAUX: Peter van Praagh, President, Halifax International Security Forum Hon. Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence, Canada Commander Solveig Krey, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Operations Section, Defence Staff Norway, Norwegian Armed Forces Air Commodore Elanor Boekholt-O'Sullivan, Commander, Cyber Defence Force, Netherlands Armed Forces Captain Fiona Shepherd, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Logistics, Operations and Plans, British Royal Navy Admiral Rob Bauer, Chief of Defence, Netherlands Armed Forces Paz Magat, Director, Peace with Women Fellowship, Halifax International Security Forum Jody Thomas, Deputy Minister of National Defence, Department of National Defence, Canada Atul Khare, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support General Stephen Wilson, Vice Chief of Staff, US Air Force Dr. Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Moderator SUBJECT/SUJET: Plenary 7 at the Halifax International Security Forum entitled “Security Solutions, Women’s Contributions.” Peter van Praagh: Good morning. Women are usually an afterthought at security conferences around the world. Oftentimes, they are relegated to special all-women panels where the discussion is limited to gender. This has got to change. Halifax International Security Forum wants this to change. That is why we have made a deliberate attempt over the past five years to increase the diversity of our panels. That is why we created the Peace with Women Fellowship Program that provides leadership training for female officers from NATO and NATO partner countries. That is why we have had panels over the past four years at Halifax to highlight women's participation in security. Women in security should not be the exception; they should be the norm. That is why this morning's plenary panel will be the last time the Halifax International Security Forum holds a panel that portrays women's contributions to peace and security as separate and distinct from the larger global effort. (Applause) Women in security should not be the exception; they should be the norm. Halifax International Security Forum believes that every part of society has a responsibility to contribute to equality and that those people who are marginalized not be left to address that challenge alone. We need to call upon the champions among us who sit in positions of influence to tip the scale. Some of those champions will be on this panel and I'd like to introduce one of those champions, Canada's Minister of National Defence, Harjit Sajjan. (Applause) Hon. Harjit Sajjan: Thank you very much Peter. Good morning everyone. Had a wonderful jog this morning, those of you who were able to wake up in time. (Laughter) You were busy talking very important issues obviously for, for security around the world. Thank you very much Peter. This is a very important panel on security solutions and especially women's contributions to it. On Friday night, at the dinner hosted by HISF, we hear from our own fellows about how all of society needs to be part of the solution, to including more women's voices in defence and security. And my most important role is not as, is not as Minister, it's actually as a father, father to my 11-year old daughter, father to my 8-year old son. That's how we're going to make these changes. We all need to stand up and make sure that our decision-making tables, whether in politics, in our militaries, at our conferences have women prominently featured. Voices like that of Lieutenant-General Christine Whitecross, who currently is the Commandant of the NATO Defence College in Rome and the Canadian Armed Forces first female three-star General. (Applause) Or Canada's first Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security, Jacqueline O'Neill (applause) who helped establish the Roméo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative. She now plays a critical role in helping our government protect the rights of women facing insecurity and violence and to promote women's meaningful participation in our development of peace and security efforts around the globe. Gender equity plays a critical role in creating lasting solutions to the challenges we face around the world, in creating spaces that allow everyone to succeed and how we can help build a more just and secure world. All of us have more to do. All of us must look at our decisions and make sure that we are supporting a more inclusive, inclusive space, especially in defence and security, because when we increase diversity in defence, it makes our forces more operationally effective, it improves how we understand conflict zones and affords greater access to communities that we otherwise might have overlooked. Though strides have been made in Canada, we need to make sure that our own institutions are welcoming and inclusive spaces. It is why the Canadian Armed Forces launched Operation HONOUR to ensure that our workspaces are free from harassment that women still often have to face. It is why our government has committed to growing the number of women who serve in the Canadian military to at least 25% by the total, by 2026. And this is not the end goal; the end goal is gender parity to represent our population of Canada. And why our defence team completes a gender-based analysis plus as part of all defence team activities now, to make sure that our policies and our equipment support those who we serve, no matter what their gender. Talking about being inclusive is only a good first step, but we can't just stop at mere words. Real change and lasting change takes action. All of us have more to do and all of us can do better. I, like many of you, look forward to hearing from this panel about what all of us can take the concrete steps so that the defence and security community can more accurately represent the progressive world that we all are working hard to protect. Now with that, I would like to turn it over to our moderator, Dr. Janice Stein and thank you very much for being here and thank you for being a leader as well, Janice. Thank you. (Applause) (Video) (Applause) Dr. Janice Stein: What a great video. I'm sure the whole panel would agree with that. Let me start by introducing the panel to you. So sitting immediately to my right is Admiral Rob Bauer. I have to make sure I get all the titles right and the ranks. The Chief of Defence for the Netherlands Armed Forces. Sitting next to Admiral Bauer is General Stephen Wilson, the Vice Chief of Staff for the US Air Force. Welcome to you both. Jody Thomas we do not need to welcome. She is one of ours, and she is currently our Deputy Minister of Defence. Great to have you here Jody. Sitting next to Jody is Atul Khare, who said he is a kind of General because he's the Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support at the UN. Welcome to you. And of course, at the end, somebody well known to all of us, our Chief of the Defence Staff Jon Vance. So thank you all for joining in the conversation. At our dinner on Friday evening, our Deputy had the privilege and the pleasure of introducing this year's fellows to you all. I was probably luckier because I got to spend a day in Toronto with them and had a very special dinner with them. And I cannot tell you what a great group of leaders they are. So before we go to the panel, I'm going to go to two or three of them, just depending on the time, and ask them just to take a minute or two in each case to tell you about a moment of leadership in their careers and what enabled those leadership. Can I start with Solveig Krey? Do we have a mic for her? We need a, a mic, oh great. Solveig is just a spectacular leader. Solveig Krey: Thank you for inviting me to be part of this. I'm Solveig Krey from the Royal Norwegian Navy and on the 9th of September in 1995, I had the, I had the pleasure of finally have the command of a submarine in Norway. I had been nine years underwater, three of them as a Commanding Officer. And I couldn't have done this if I didn't have any sponsors actually. There were some brave men, I would say, around me, encouraged me all the way and never had any problems inside a submarine surface as warfare area because I knew them all and they knew me. That was all the other ones outside, how is this possible? Is it possible, a woman? Yes, it's possible, and someone has to be the first, but sadly I'm still the first and the only one. So I'm waiting that you, the other nations are coming behind. So I, I did three years as a Commanding Officer. Later, I was the Chief of the Submarine Service and I have had some really good bosses along my career, and they have encouraged me and they have actually, there's been Admirals and Generals up to the three and four-star level, said we want you here. And we have to encourage more women to do this.
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