Chair, thank you very much.
The fundamental objection we have to this amendment is that it flips on its head the logic of the bill in the first place, which is to create a tier of administrative offences that are being tried and dealt with in a much more expeditious manner. Those are non-penal or less penal offences that would not be subject to the criminal justice standard. It also goes to the burden of proof, which subsequent amendments speak to beyond reasonable doubt versus balance of probabilities.
The Canadian Forces in terms of the volume of disciplinary incidents that it has to deal with needs an administrative justice system that is more efficient than that which the court martial system would allow.
That's the reason we would oppose this essential conflation of the two standards of administrative and criminal justice.