We would be allowing objectively serious offences that may not be serious enough to refer to court martial, within the specific circumstances, to be tried at summary trial and, if a conviction is entered, that individual would not receive a record.
Consider the brawl or the fight in the mess on a Friday night that results in a number of assault charges. These are serious offences, but none of them took place in serious circumstances. The commanding officer, in the interest of discipline, decides that it's appropriate for him to deal with these. He would try them and, if convictions are entered, then under the amendment there would be no criminal record within the meaning of the Criminal Records Act.
These same types of offences are dealt with downtown in the civilian justice system all the time. If you were to get into a similar type of dust-up in a bar in Ottawa on a Friday night, and you were tried and convicted in summary conviction court in downtown Ottawa, receiving a similar type of punishment, then you would have a criminal record within the meaning of the Criminal Records Act for that. That's the distinction we're talking about here as we go forward.