The committee should be aware that there is a duty to accommodate process in the military. Do I agree with the process? The answer is no. Do I trust the process? No. I simply don't agree with the way it is being applied.
Every year every trade in the military provides a certain percentage of vacancies for every trade and at every rank level. As an example, there could be three billets for infantry warrant officers in the entire infantry corps for accommodation purposes. That means the military has embraced the duty to accommodate process and will actually select people to fill those billets on an accommodation provision.
As you are probably aware, it's until there's undue hardship on the organization, which is why it limits the number of billets per rank, per trade. It's understandable that if an entire trade were to be plagued with injured members and it couldn't deploy, then they would not be serving you.
Where I have an issue with the duty to accommodate process is that it's on a first-come, first-served basis, which makes no sense to me. If you are up for an accommodation at your rank in your trade on January 2 and the list was published on January 1, you are automatically pigeonholed in that billet and you block a billet. It might have changed, but as far as I know there is not yet a process by which we also recognize length of service, merit, and other factors. In other words—I hate to be crude—what if an incompetent.... We do have incompetent sergeants or captains.
To me, there is an issue there. There are limitations to the process, and I understand that, but I find that it could be upped a little bit. Duty to accommodate does exist in the CF. It is being applied. I think it could be improved a little bit and it should not be on a first-come, first-served basis.