Yes, thank you, Chief, and thank you, Chair. It's an honour to be here to address these issues.
To focus on the question of punishment, again, it's a real challenge, particularly as the superintendent of the military justice system, where my role is to ensure that this justice system—if that's the focus of the punishment aspect of your question—is balanced both in terms of the victims of offences and those accused of offences.
I would be very cautious, both with Canadians and our allies, to make it too simplistic, that punishments and convictions equal success in dealing with sexual assault. I'm not aware of any empirical data that would support that supposition. As superintendent, at the end of the day what I'm most concerned about is that justice is done, whether that's in terms of punishment and convictions or in terms of acquittals.