I would have two suggestions to put to the committee on that point.
The first is recognizing that the application of the National Defence Act can have a very wide scope. It can apply in various operational theatres but also on home soil during training. There might be room to treat those two different locales differently. For example, in an operational theatre it might be more justifiable to have more expeditious resolution to those summary complaints, whereas when one has the luxury of facilities at home and of being on Canadian soil, maybe different standards could be imposed. Certainly that's something that might be considered under section 1 when we're looking at whether there are charter violations and if they are indeed saved by section 1. That's something that can perhaps be recognized.
If there are going to be laxer standards--that may be loose language--in terms of the procedural fairness, one good way, in my opinion, to guard against that would be to strengthen the rights of appeal, to make sure there's a proper record, to make sure that if, because of that procedural unfairness, there is a breach of charter standards and an injustice done, that there's at least a record and a mechanism that, when time allows, would allow that mistake to be corrected.