Thank you for that question.
Pascal Lévesque is a former colleague, and certainly a friend of mine. We've worked together. We've appeared before this committee not as witnesses, but in support. I respect his opinion and his submission.
With regard to his concerns, service offences are laid out in the National Defence Act. They are codified. As Pascal knows very well, because we did work together, the same can be said of regulation. If we take the view that any disciplinary regulation will be set out in volume II of the Queen's Regulations and Orders, which is currently the disciplinary volume.... All members, and all those who use it—accused, presiding members and commanding officers—will be well aware of what those service infractions are.
The one advantage I'll point out procedurally as well, not necessarily in this realm, but generally, is that with the QR and O we have the ability to put in notes. A note to the QR and O does not have a meaning in law, if you will, but it's very helpful in terms of adding some assistance to those members who would use either the summary infraction system, or any other aspect of the QR and O.
In response to Mr. Lévesque's question, I can assure this committee that as with the legislation, although it's a different system, all users of the summary infraction system will be well aware of those service infractions.