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<i>Marine systems</i>
<i>engineering officer 212,</i>

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<i>marine systems</i>
<i>engineering officer.</i>

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Is that you?

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That's me. Just a sec.

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I am Lt(N) Kayla Bouchard

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and I'm the Marine systems
Engineering Officer

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in HMCS Vancouver.

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As the head of department,
it's really working with

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and enabling my team.

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So overall, I've got
55 people that work for me

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that are Marine technicians
or firefighters.

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And what we all do as
a team effort is making sure

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that the ship is able to go
ahead and astern in the water,

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to make sure that we are able
to turn whenever we want to,

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and then to the basics
of having lights

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and making water and
making sure that, you know,

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our sewage system works
properly and effectively.

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The people are
the best part of my job,

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and the challenging
circumstances that we often

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find ourselves in,

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it's very impressive
to watch my team go

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because a lot of times, they'll
be faced with unique problems,

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and they'll rely on
the training that they got

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throughout their experience
or formally throughout school,

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and they'll be able to make some
pretty impressive things happen

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with very little resources
around them.

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We've got really great
training facilities,

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the training development centre,

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spending a lot of time
and energy trying to develop

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these innovative ways

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of teaching our sailors
the information

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that they need to know
to be able

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to be effective on the ships.
Particularly through

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this new MAR TECH trade,
how are we going to be able

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to use the technology
that's out there.

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So, let's capitalize
on the opportunity

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that we have so that,
whenever we get home,

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you can spend time at home
with your family

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and understand
that you come back

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with, you know,
a new certification,

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that that time away
was well spent.

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In the technical trades now,

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whenever we look at the amount
of women at sea,

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as heads of departments

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for Marine systems engineers.

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It's really nice to see
that we've got more

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than 50% heads of departments

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that are actually women.

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Trying to get more women
into technical trades.

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And so, we're doing day sails

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and we're trying to make sure
that we've got an environment

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that is suitable for women,

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which I would argue we do.

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I've got a number of women
that are in my department,

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and all of which
have been very successful

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in what it is they're doing.

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And so, we've been trying

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to recruit them
doing day sails. Right?

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Just exposure
to the fact that, one,

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this is what you can do,

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because the challenge
in being in the Navy

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is that we only
really have two Navy bases,

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one on either coast,
and much of Canada isn't there.

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So, we brought people out
to visit the ships.

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In the summer, we often send
ships down the Saint-Laurent

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to tell our story a bit,
of what it is we do

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and why the Navy is great.