Mr. Bachand, is it your hope that the military judges would have the right to have their grievances considered? The way I read this amendment, one of the worries was that the Chief of the Defence Staff shouldn't have authority over the military judges. This seems to say that the Chief of the Defence Staff doesn't have discretion in referring those grievances to the committee. It says that every grievance shall be submitted to the grievance committee. Every grievance of a military judge shall be referred. Then the last sentence says the Chief of the Defence Staff “may” refer other grievances to the grievance committee. In other words, he has an option on other grievances, but he doesn't have an option with the military judges. He has to send them to the grievance committee. Is that a problem? I'm just trying to understand.
On March 7th, 2011. See this statement in context.