Chair, this is one amendment, one clause, in our bill to which we are particularly attached. I simply wanted to put on the record here a question directly relevant to this clause, though, in the context of Mr. Harris's previous remarks, which, for the record, we on this side find disagreeable. I haven't been called that in committee, or elsewhere, before. I regret the use of such language. We're trying to have a technical discussion of an important issue and at long last complete committee stage of consideration of an important bill.
This bill, in one form or another, has been before Parliament for the better part of a decade. We are now reviewing this bill in the context not of one review that has been put before the government, not of two reviews by senior members of the judiciary that have been put before the government, but of three reviews. This bill, because of those successive reviews, does not capture all of the recommendations, it's true. LeSage has not fully provided for it here. There will have to be further legislation almost certainly to respond to LeSage.
But would our colleague Mr. Harris not agree that the weakness, if there has been a failure to modernize the military justice system, is not in the number of reviews, the lack of reviews, or in the time period of those reviews; it is in the failure of successive Parliaments to legislate in this area. We all know the circumstances. I didn't hear it during the debate at second reading. I haven't heard it in debate at committee here, but will he not, for once, accept, as one of the long-standing members of this committee, some responsibility for the fact that Parliament has not yet acted and that this is the reason, if any, why our military justice system is not as modern as we would like it to be?