Alternatives, such as facilitated mediation, are being examined. The formal mechanism for dealing with harassment complaints will remain in place. No one in the Navy, or elsewhere in the CF, need put up with harassment. Some of them are oriented towards a career in the Armed Forces, but others decide to move on to something else. Not surprisingly, there are a number of factors which influence their career decisions, and equally unsurprisingly, a good many of them find that while the experience is good for a while, it is not the way they wish to spend their entire working lives.
Many men feel the same way about service careers.
The Navy has been longest at the integration of women into its fighting forces, starting with women serving in Reserve vessels, then trials in HMCS Cormorant, the Diving Support Vessel, in about 1979, and then into all surface ships in about 1987. It is still early days in the sociological change. The Naval assessment is that the integration of women into ships is a success story. This is not to say that they have been free of harassment cases, but these are increasingly rare. The Army started much later, in 1987, to try integrating women into combat units.