Some people talk as if a Canadian soldier, when he enlists, loses his rights to the kind of procedural fairness that takes some time and that may be difficult or awkward in the field. That's not the right way to think about it. Wherever a Canadian soldier goes on a mission, he carries the charter with him in the same way that someone carries the flag. The charter is flexible. If there's an enemy engagement going on and you can't have a full trial, you can make exceptions, but you can't make a blanket rule that because you're in the military, all or some summary trials are going to result in criminal records that follow you forever. That's not the way the charter operates.
We'll get better soldiers if we give them the respect of having them know they have the same rights as everybody else, as adapted to the particular exercise they're engaged in, and not some blanket notion that they waived their rights when they enlisted. That's disrespectful.