Yes. Thank you.
Good morning.
What I would like to emphasize this morning is that the Canadian Armed Forces members and Canadians can rest assured that the military justice system is indeed meeting its purpose of maintaining discipline, efficiency and morale in the Canadian Armed Forces.
You will recall that last year, the Supreme Court of Canada in its R v Stillman landmark decision confirmed that the military justice system is a system that is necessary, a system that is legitimate and a system that is constitutional. In saying so, the Supreme Court of Canada reminded us that this is so because that system regularly receives scrutiny from parliamentarians, scrutiny from the courts and also scrutiny from independent reviews.
I believe that these three venues by which the system regularly receives reviews in order to ensure that it continues to evolve are extremely important to ensuring that the system continues to evolve with Canadian law, and also in accordance with Canadian values.