The provisions in our law regarding an inquiry committee are largely consistent with similar provisions set up under the Judges Act with respect to civilian judges. So currently, today, the inquiry committee is constituted in the Queen's regulations and orders and would be composed of three judges of the Court Martial Appeal Court selected by the chief justice of the Court Martial Appeal Court. It is meant to be a safeguard of independence that the composition of the committee is determined by an external independent authority and that the actual members of the committee would be judges of the Court Martial Appeal Court who would examine this.
Under the proposals in Bill C-15, the inquiry committee as recommended by former Chief Justice Lamer would be shifted from regulations into the National Defence Act itself to give greater prominence to that and to give even greater perception of the security of independence.
So to answer your question about how difficult it is to get rid of a judge, of course, that is something that would not be undertaken lightly in either the military or civilian justice system. It happens extremely rarely, and the conditions that would be required for that would either be that the judge had sufficiently misconducted himself or herself in demeanour so as to no longer be able to continue as a judge or that the judge was medically incapable of continuing.
The conditions and the criteria for removal are specified in law, and the decision to make a recommendation is made by an external independent authority.