We would have to do some analysis to see how to get there. However, I would like to say at the outset that tribunals generally prefer to have specific offences, because when you have more general offences to address a specific behaviour, tribunal courts in Canada have a tendency to say that the accused did not get the opportunity to know exactly what they were facing. I think that the capacity to charge under other offences would require further analysis by my office. We currently have a specific offence that is incorporated in the code of service discipline, and if it were to disappear, it could signal also to the courts the parliamentary intent in that regard.
