That's a very good question.
For committee members who know from my previous appearances, I talked about the office of the JAG and that we deploy legal advisers with all major Canadian Forces operations. This one is no different. We have a legal officer with the air component commander in Ramstein for the primary purpose of assisting with the targeting process. Under our formal targeting process, the targeting team that advises the commanders at every level primarily consists of intelligence officers, operational officers, legal advisers, and, where possible, policy advisers. They're all there as an integral part of the team to feed into recommendations to the decision-maker, in this case the commander at the various levels. We also have a legal adviser aboard HMCS Charlottetown to help in its operations.
They are very key on all aspects--not just targeting, but use of force in all circumstances. Regrettably, as we've heard in your previous session, military justice still has to be done at sea and on the ground with the troops, and the legal advisers, unfortunately, might have to advise on charges or not charges as well.