Thank you. I do move that.
Amendment NDP-19 is with respect to the reserve military judges system. We believe it's unnecessary. We would rely on the arguments made to this committee by Colonel Drapeau, who testified on February 11.
We're also looking at the dissenting opinion by Commissioner Norman Sterling in the report of the Military Judges Compensation Committee, who talked about the existing workload of military judges being what he called the lowest amount of compensation, the lowest number of days, of any court, so their workload can't be compared with the superior courts. He was concerned about the cost of this.
But here we are in fact creating more judges when it's not necessary. We don't think it's necessary, and it's regarded by Colonel Drapeau as an extravagance. It's unnecessary to add this other layer of military judges to a system that's already over-resourced, shall we say.