Thank you.
Colonel Perron, you mentioned—and I'm not a lawyer, so please correct me—that there are service offences that result in criminal records—for instance, insubordination, absence without leave, drunkenness, conduct, and so on—that are not found in the civilian world. In your opinion, should somebody who was in the Canadian Armed Forces have a criminal record for one of these offences? Once they leave the Canadian Armed Forces, should that criminal record follow them? Is there something that we should be thinking about with respect to that?
You mentioned that when they leave the Canadian Armed Forces, they would have difficulty finding a job, crossing the border, and so on and so forth. Should an offence that is unique to the Canadian Armed Forces or that field carry forward into the civilian world, and is that something we should be looking at, or should we just be abolishing completely a criminal record for offences that are found strictly in military life?