Yes, Mr. Chair. When the court martial is scheduled, the scheduling is done by an officer within the judge's office who is called the court martial administrator. They work with all the players—the judge, the defence counsel, and the prosecutor—to determine when and where a court martial can take place.
My understanding of this was that all those parties were consulted in the process. Of course, what we're trying to achieve is a fair trial, but an expedient and quick one. Especially when you're dealing with a commander, it has to be dealt with swiftly in terms of the individual and the impact on discipline. Because he is at the top of the discipline chain, we have to move quickly.
If there was consideration that the trial could have been done more quickly in theatre...I'm sure that was considered and could have been done; I don't know the reasons. It's not for my questioning at this point, but it wasn't a question of the status of the individual, of him being a general, that the court martial was back in Canada.