No. I'm making a point about the amendment by placing the grievances committee in the position of the CDS as final authority for the resolution of grievances for the purposes of military justice. That would be an inconsistency in the legislation. We therefore consider it entirely inappropriate.
The military judges do have absolute independence, and that independence is robustly protected throughout the act insofar as they are adjudicating legal cases. Insofar as they file grievances, which to my understanding has never occurred, the number of military judges being very limited, they would be subject to the grievance process. No amendment has been proposed to the final authority under this proposed legislation, not to make the Chief of the Defence Staff anything other than the final authority in the grievance process under section 29.11.