Chair, when you look at the wording of the section, the court martial is considering it desirable in the interests of the safety of an offender or of any other person. It's obviously a safety issue. If a court martial were to make such an order because of the safety of the offender or some other person, it seems, through common sense, to be potentially or likely inconsistent for an infantry officer, as you pointed out, who can't have a weapon on his own, to be issued one in the service of his duty.
I suspect there's some rationale here that may have to do with military chains of command and obedience to authority and all sorts of other things that might make this possible. But I'm giving you an opportunity to provide a rationale that would make sense to the ordinary Canadian.
As Mr. Norlock keeps saying, I'm asking the kind of question that my constituents might ask, who say, how is it—