Mr. Harris, the chief takes deeply personally his relationship with the members of the Canadian Forces and deeply personally their sense that they're being fairly treated. The issue in terms of delegation of final authority is not to sever or to adjust that relationship. It is, in fact, to establish a set of reasonable conditions within which final authority decisions can be made.
We have quite a lot of history. There are many grievances that manifest themselves with different people. The issue is that if the chief acted as the final authority for every grievance, he would spend more than a third of his time as Chief of the Defence Staff working on those issues.
He needs support. The key is to make it clear what his criteria are, what his views are, and to meet regularly to understand the grievances under consideration and to select those that he feels he needs personally to become involved with, either because of their complexity, because of the precedent they may establish, or because of the key leadership issues that are involved.
May I turn to Colonel Gauthier to add anything to that, Mr. Chair?