She faced a training deadline to go to sea and was given six weeks to decide between her child and her career as a warship navigator. "The decision broke me," Nash, 33, told CBC News in an interview. She was, at the time of her dressing down, at the navy's principal West Coast fleet base in Esquimalt, B.C. Child-care options through the military family resource centre were limited, particularly in light of the waiting list for spaces which has — at times — stretched to two years. "That's the way that some of the women in the military look at children," said Nash.

Source: CBC News June 13, 2017 09:00 UTC