Certainly the bill is designed to.... As some of the members may recall, Chief Justice Dickson, when he reviewed the military justice system, stated that the commanding officer is “at the heart of...discipline”. Certainly, the esprit—the spirit, if you will—of the summary hearing system is that the commanding officer indeed remains that.
Of course, with any new system there will be training given and regulations drafted through our Queen's Regulations and Orders that will outline specific details relating to the summary hearing system. Much like the current summary trial system, there is a back-and-forth in terms of the legal officers who provide advice to the commanding officers. That could in fact be the case with the summary hearing system.
When the JAG testified yesterday before the public accounts committee, she gave the analogy to the summary hearing system as the RCMP disciplinary system or a disciplinary system within the public service. I think that is a very good analogy to reinforce to this committee—that in fact the summary hearing process will very much look like that, with the particularities that we require to maintain good order, discipline and morale in the Canadian Armed Forces.