I'm not sure what world the parliamentary secretary is living in, but we're not on a war footing. This Parliament, this country, is not on a war footing. If we're contemplating—if I may finish—the necessities of an armed force of 100,000 or 200,000 or one million people in uniform engaged on a battlefield, while we're putting these people into uniform and recruiting them and training them and standing them up, or whatever the appropriate expression is, and sending them into a circumstance where we might need more military judges, then somewhere along the way I suspect that the Parliament of the day could ensure that whenever it's necessary to have an appropriate system in place for that work—whether it be raising the funds to do it, bringing legislation into order, or making sure that we have the things contemplated—that would be done. We can't put 100,000 people in the field like that. Look at the experience of Afghanistan.
Yes, we used reservists. Why did we use reservists? We used reservists because we didn't have enough armed forces to maintain the unit in the field at the strength required, and we brought reservists to the fore. They spent six months training before they got there.
If we had the kind of emergency that my friend is talking about, then we'd certainly have a very compliant Parliament that would ensure the system was adequate to handle it, whether it be financial, whether it be legal, whether it be legislative emergency powers or whatever else is required to do that.
I really don't think that is much of an argument for creating a system that's unnecessary in the current circumstance.