Thank you, Justice Arbour. It is a pleasure and an honour to have you with us.
I would like to continue talking about your recommendation that sexual assaults be completely removed from the jurisdiction of courts martial.
A year ago, when you made the interim recommendation to transfer those cases to the civilian authorities, of the arguments made, two stand out. The first argument was that transferring cases that were initiated a long time ago might cause problems in relation to the Jordan decision. The second was that the victims might not want to relive the entire process, to have to testify again to civilian police and start the investigation of their case over from zero.
Under your suggestion that the jurisdiction of courts martial in this area be eliminated, there would be an automatic transfer of cases to the civilian authorities. I would like to know what you think about those arguments, which might be unfounded.