I want to deal with two questions.
First, one of my major concerns since the beginning of this discussion has been to try to bring military justice closer to civilian justice. If we set up a military justice system that is completely military, we move away from the principle I want to maintain. That is why I am in favour of this.
In terms of the qualities of the individuals who are going to be appointed by the Governor in Council anyway, I just remind people that, in the civilian justice system, when major trials are held before a jury, all kinds of people make up that jury. We can't forbid someone from being part of a jury, which means having a person's future in one's hands in a legal sense, just because he sweeps the streets.
The civilian approach is important. There are also consequences to bringing the civilian and the military system together. There will be those who perhaps cannot fully understand military life, and then there will be those who may have spent 30 years in the Canadian Forces. But justice may also imply using a different approach. It will be interesting to see whether case law changes as the result of this amendment. I feel that the change is a step in the right direction.