I think so. I didn't say this in the introduction, but after leaving the Canadian Forces I became an officer in the Royal Australian Navy. I wasn't a legal officer, but I did advisory work for the director of Australian naval legal services.
I can say, and I know this is going to be on the record, that the Australian approach to the reform of military justice is much more visceral, much less reflective than our approach in this country. That's why, as some of you may know, they've just gone through an awful time. There's been a constitutional challenge that has pretty much neutered the whole Australian system of military justice. It has undercut much of what Colonel Drapeau said they were trying to do.
We've not done that in Canada. We've had the chance, several times, to reflect and so on.
I think that Bill C-41 is not perfect, and if I were the parliamentary drafter there are things I might do differently. But I do think that in a reflective way, with almost 20 years now of hot operational experience to inform it, it has come a long way.