Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for being here today. Your testimony, I think, is very important.
I think my concern...I'm not sure what word I'm looking for here. I wish we'd had you here earlier in the sequence of testimony, because you've raised some important points about how this will actually operate in practice about which I would have liked the chance to ask some of the people here earlier. I regret—that's the word I'm probably looking for—that you weren't here earlier. I think it's very important testimony.
I want to go back to one of the first things you talked about, and that is the transfer of cases to civilian court. I'm sure you're aware of the Beaudry case and the decision of the military appeal court that serious offences, if they're not related to military service directly, shouldn't be handled by the military justice system. That will be going to the Supreme Court, obviously. When you're saying that in this bill we should have clearer indication that there's a choice, it looks as if that choice may be going to disappear.