The CDS retains the option not to delegate, and the function of delegating grievances is protected both in terms of the rank of the person to whom the authority can be delegated and in that, should the situation arise where a military judge has a grievance, the CDS must retain the direct responsibility for that grievance.
We will oppose this amendment simply because the term “far-reaching implications” is vague. Who would determine which grievance has far-reaching implications? It's not a self-defining category of issues. We do find that the current specification of certain types of grievances with systemic implications that exist in the Queen's Regulations and Orders 7.12 is a sufficient safeguard of the CDS's responsibility to retain responsibility for grievances that could impact the entire institution. But it's laid out in a more precise way there, and we think properly in the QR and O because those regulations can be changed by order in council.